Ahead of this morning’s Cameron, Clegg, Lansley event on the NHS, it is worth
reminding ourselves of what Nick Clegg was saying about these reforms back at the start of the year. On January 23rd, he went on the Andrew Marr show and had this exchange:
‘ANDREW MARR: Huge change to the NHS just coming down the line. Was that in the Liberal Democrat manifesto? NICK CLEGG: Actually funnily enough it was. Indeed it was. We were one of the primary critics in opposition of what we felt was a top … ANDREW MARR: (over) I don’t remember you saying you were going to get rid of Primary Care Trusts and pass it down to GPs. NICK CLEGG: We certainly said we were going to get rid of Primary Care Trusts.’
If you read the whole
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