Nicola Sturgeon has said Gordon Brown was warned ahead of the 2014 independence referendum the NHS could be threatened by creeping privatisation.
Nicola Sturgeon has said Gordon Brown was warned ahead of the 2014 independence referendum that the NHS could be threatened by creeping privatisation.
It came after Sajid Javid, a former UK health secretary, claimed in an interview last week the NHS could not "survive much longer" without radical change - including introducing patient charges. Responding to a question from the Record, the SNP leader said: "I absolutely agree with Gordon Brown that the Tories, right now, present a real and present danger to the National Health Service."I find it hard to believe that a former health secretary was flying a kite like that completely on his own accord. There is a hint that, at the very least, there is an active debate within the Conservative party about moving down that road.
Scottish politics The First Minister continued: "The final point I would make about Gordon Brown's comments is I well remember making this argument, and raising these concerns in the run-up to the independence referendum in 2014
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