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BORIS JOHNSON’S Conservatives were worried fears about the NHS — about cuts, privatisation and US companies grabbing bits of the health service — could eat into their votes during the election.
So they took the obvious route — lying.
Conservative Central Office said that arguments about privatisation were “just scaremongering from Labour. There has been no increase in NHS privatisation and there won’t be under a Conservative government.”
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