Ahead of his speech at the Lib Dem Conference, Cathy Newman speaks to the leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey about how they’ll work with the government on issues like the NHS.
Ahead of his speech at the Lib Dem Conference, Cathy Newman speaks to the leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey, about how they’ll work with the government on issues like the NHS.Sir Ed Davey, you’ve talked about fighting to fix the NHS, so can I take it from that, that in extremis you’re prepared to vote against the budget if the government doesn’t put more money into the NHS urgently?Yeah. I mean we fought the general election on NHS and care. It was our top priority.
So for example, on immigration, you talk about wanting new safe routes for asylum seekers. You want more money for the NHS and higher taxes to pay for it. You oppose means-testing the winter fuel allowance. You want to scrap the two child benefit limit, I mean, how many Tory voters are going to be attracted by these kinds of policies?Huge numbers. I disagree with your characterisation of this being left and right. Look at the NHS and care. I don’t think that’s a left-right issue, actually.
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