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Can Sir Keir Starmer really fix NHS by taking on Labour’s friends and donors in unions?
Europe’s top generals have reached a damning conclusion regarding the British Army
Keir’s NHS test
NEVER mind managing the England football team.
For our timid political masters, reforming the NHS has become the impossible job.
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For decades our health service has been allowed to bloat unchecked.
Meanwhile, patients suffer substandard care, and exhausted frontline staff quit in droves while the number of managers soars.
Everyone agrees that simply pumping hundreds of billions more into the bottomless NHS pit cannot go on.
The Tories — blown badly off course by the Covid pandemic — have so far been unable to muster the political stomach needed to take on this most sacred of cows.
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And, if the polls are to be believed, it will soon be Sir Keir Starmer’s urgent problem to solve.
There is an argument that only Labour is capable of forcing wholesale reform of an institution where left-wing groupthink is so deeply entrenched against the Tories.
Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting has so far said all the right things about ending the destructive cycle of waste.
But can Labour really deliver change, by taking on their friends and donors in the unions who did so much deliberate damage to the Tory Government with endless strikes?
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Or is it just talk?
Sir Keir says he will always put country before party.
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Taking apart and rebuilding the NHS would test that pledge to the limit.
Boomer & bust
RISHI Sunak has shifted the Election campaign dial with his Triple Lock Plus pledge to pensioners.
Labour’s refusal to back his £275 tax break will cause alarm among OAPs.
Accusations of Labour inflicting a “Retirement Tax” could well stick in minds come polling day.
But the PM needs to remember young people — and their worried parents — have votes, too.
Give them some hope they might one day get on the property ladder, PM.
Troop droop
IT’S not just military leaders at home worried about Britain’s ability to fight off foreign threats, with troop numbers the lowest in 300 years.
Europe’s top generals now believe the UK could not properly pull its weight in any Nato war with Russia.
Shamefully, despite defence spending hikes, our Army remains significantly smaller than France’s while our overall Armed Forces are dwarfed by Germany’s.
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The US has already said it cannot plug our gaps.
A national embarrassment is fast becoming a real and present danger.
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