What happened last time means that the Tories are extremely nervous about their manifesto launch tomorrow. As I say in The Sun this morning, the Tories have had teams poring over it to see what might blow up in it.
One of the many problems with the 2017 document was that it failed to understand the shift in the public’s mood when it came to austerity. This manifesto gets that change. I understand that it will bring back a version of the nurses’ bursary, which helped with the costs of training to be a nurse, that George Osborne abolished in 2015. This was widely regarded by the public as a cut too far.
The Tories hope that a maintenance grant for nurses will show both their commitment to the NHS and their pragmatism, the abolition of the nurses bursary has been blamed for a shortfall in the number of people training to be a nurse.
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