The Prime Minister's latest spending pledge has been met with some scepticism
’s new pledge to give the NHS an extra £1.8 billion is a ploy to win voters at the next general election, the shadow health secretary has said.
Jon Ashworth, Shadow Secretary of State for Health, has aired his concerns about Johnson’s new pledge He added: ‘We will see if this money is ever delivered,’ and said that only £100 million of £2.5 billion health spending announcement over the past two years had been delivered. The Prime Minister still receives criticism for the battle bus claim that leaving the EU would allow the UK to give £350 million a week to the NHS
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