The tectonic plates were shifting at PMQs. Sir Keir Starmer asked Rishi Sunak if the total NHS waiting list of 7.2 million had risen or fallen during his nine months in office. Rishi said the number was up because striking medics are denying treatment to the people whose taxes pay for it. He suggested that Sir Keir should get work-shy doctors to accept the pay increase recommended by an independent review.
The SNP can’t show delight in public – party policy forbids any display of cheerfulness or amusement
They tussled over the funding of a new NHS staffing policy. Sir Keir claimed that scrapping tax exemptions for non-doms will cover the cost but Rishi had heard it all before. ‘The same policy has paid for five different things. Everyone knows I’m keen on doing maths to 18. He makes a strong case for doing maths all the way to 61.’
Inaccuracy ruined that gag.
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