Rishi Sunak knows NHS is the best gift a nation could have given itself — it’s in his blood

THE NHS is the best gift a nation could have given itself.

Rishi Sunak gets that — it’s in his blood.

His dad was a doctor and his mother was a pharmacist.

But he also gets that the NHS beat Covid only to face another crisis — the groaning backlogs that must be slashed now.

Many Sun readers will know the utter misery of spending months on waiting lists.

I know Rishi will take a sledgehammer to this backlog.

His plan to assemble a crack team to smash waiting times is based on the heroic vaccines taskforce I witnessed first hand during the pandemic.

Rishi realises this drive that won us the Covid war must not be lost, but used again in this emergency.