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Andy Burnham’s assault on the government’s galloping privatisation of the NHS in England is a welcome decision to fight on ground favourable to the Labour Party.
It combines an attack on David Cameron’s duplicity, having promised no top-down reorganisation of our health services, with a reminder that, for the Tories and Liberal Democrats, private profits are all-important.
No issue is more important for the majority of voters than the NHS — the post-war Labour government’s jewel in the crown.
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP