Does Keir Starmer want to use Lord Darzi’s report on the NHS today merely as the latest ‘shocking’ piece of evidence of Tory mess, or will it actually lead to meaningful reform?
The Prime Minister suggested he wanted to do both in his speech this morning. Yes, he ran through how things were much worse than anyone, even Darzi, a renowned surgeon who has worked in the NHS for decades, imagined. But he also included several phrases designed to show that he is serious about changing the health service – and about the battles he will have to fight to get there.
He told the audience at the King’s Fund that ‘I haven’t come here just to set out this appalling inheritance, though it is really important that we know it and properly understand it in detail. But my Labour government was elected on a mandate for change, so I’m also here to talk about how together we can fix it.
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