Returning to the NHS funding bill, he said: “All this gimmick means is even longer waiting lists, more delays for cancer patients and more A&Es bursting at the seams.”, The Labour leader went on to say: “If he’s really committed to fixing the crisis his government has created over the last decade, he should end the empty rhetoric and back out proposals to give the NHS the funding it needs rather than putting into law an insufficiency of funding.”.
Money will also come from Labour's "national transformation fund" for capital expenditure and the previously-announced plan to lift the 1% cap on pay rises will also be funded from corporation tax. As a former NHS Whistleblower who had my career destroyed for telling the truth, I was utterly sickened by Starmer rewarding those who deliberately lied to smear Jeremy Corbyn; it is too disgusting for words. A new £500 million fund has also been proposed to ensure the NHS avoids a winter crisis and 2.5 million cancer patients are helped by delivering in full the cancer strategy for England. Video, 00:02:54The 12 Hong Kong activists captured at sea, Sonic boom heard across Paris.

And that is why this government is investing record sums in the NHS. There are concerns that some young people will face the prospect of being confined to their halls of residence over Christmas, The censored side of Cold War Steve's artwork on Boscombe beach in Bournemouth, England. PMQs: Johnson and Corbyn on NHS care and funding, NHS is understaffed and underfunded - Corbyn. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights.

Jeremy Corbyn campaigns in Blackpool as Labour announce NHS funding plans (Photo: Joe Giddens/PA Wire) The Conservatives and Labour resumed their battle over the future of the NHS … Video, 00:00:51C$1m cash seized in 'illegal casino' mansion raid, Beach flag tribute to those killed by coronavirus. "Just look at Wales where Labour cut funding for the NHS. And we all share that. The Labour leader told Prime Minister's Questions the NHS was "understaffed and underfunded". Video, 00:03:26, Would you ride in a robot taxi? Turning to the issue of social care, Corbyn said: “It has now been almost three years since the government promised a green paper on social care, and seven months since the Prime Minister himself stood on the steps of Downing Street and said he had prepared a clear plan to fix the crisis in social care. The NHS took centre stage at Prime Minister’s Questions today as Jeremy Corbyn pressed Boris Johnson on waiting times, the government’s funding bill for the health service, and social care. The satirical artist Cold War Steve has been ordered by the council to cover up a massive windbreak depicting a naked Boris Johnson chasing a pig, which was due to be displayed on Boscombe beach. In a humiliating climbdown, the MP for Leicester South said his party would allow the legislation to pass, even though the money on offer was too little and the framework of the bill would actually restrict the amount of money going to the NHS.

"The Liberal Democrats are the only party with a fully costed plan to deliver £6 billion more per year for the NHS and social care by putting a penny on income tax. Jeremy Corbyn ramped up his election message to Donald Trump that the NHS would never be for sale under a Labour government, as the US president spends his first full day in the UK. Yet, despite this, the Party has just advertised 50 new vacancies at its Newcastle Head Office. After the party’s crushing election defeat, Party leaders told staff that there would be a number of redundancies due to a lack of funds. Receive more election analysis from me every weekday lunchtime by signing up to the i on politics newsletter here, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: “Labour have let the cat out of the bag: they won’t increase the NHS budget, they will cut it. Can you trust US polls? Over 15,000 beds have been cut, hospitals are crumbling and our NHS is chronically short of nurses and family doctors.”. Fresh nationwide lockdown restrictions in England appear to be on the cards soon as the British government targeted more areas Friday in an attempt to suppress a sharp spike in new coronavirus infections, A model presents a creation during the Bora Aksu catwalk show at London Fashion Week 2020, World kickboxing champion Carl Thomas during his attempt to run a marathon while pulling a plane at Elvington Airfield near York.

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mass rally against vaccination and government restrictions designed to fight the spread of the novel coronavirus, including the wearing of masks and taking tests for the virus, Flowers are laid down outside the custody centre where a police officer was shot dead in Croydon, south London, A member of the Jewish community inspects an Lulav, which makes up one of the 'Four Species', or Arba Minim in Hebrew, before purchasing in London, England. He went on to highlight the case of the 92 year-old RAF veteran in Leicester, who had to wait 12 hours on a trolley because there were no beds available. Video, 00:02:17'Shut up, man' and other insults, Dublin 'having someone different' as Lord Mayor. "It would be unrecognisable: a national health service in name, cut back, broken up and plundered by private corporations. Video, 00:02:14Would you ride in a robot taxi? LabourList has more readers than ever before - but we need your support.

An Outlandish website Reducing NHS workers’ hours to 32 hours a week, without reducing their pay, would cost £6.1bn a year, according to the Tories – making Labour’s funding increase less generous than their own. PM quizzed on veteran's 12-hour hospital wait. He asked the Prime Minister to apologise and to explain why “over 2,000 patients had to wait more than 12 hours before they could get into a hospital bed last month alone”. ", A worker spray cleans the Beatles statue in Liverpool, An actor dressed as pantomime dame waves a flag at the entrance of a theatre before marching on Parliament to demand more support for the theatre sector amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in London, Prime Minister Boris Johnson reacts whilst talking with students during his visit to Exeter College in southwest England, A student gestures at the window of the Birley Halls student accommodation, for students at Manchester Metropolitan University, as many students live in a temporary lock-down in a bid to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus Covid-19 on the campus.

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