Labour's Cat Smith questions the PM on his use of private healthcare and asks about his last NHS dentist appointment. Mr Sunak says he is registered with an NHS dentist and doctor - but admits to using private healthcare 'in the past'. Read more:
A significant development came out of this PMQs session in its first couple of minutes – from the prime minister when he admitted he had used private healthcare in the past, but was registered with an NHS GP.
With Labour MPs now regularly making coded, or not so coded, jibes at the prime minister's expensive education, his wife's tax affairs and his use of paid-for healthcare, Sunak seems to have swiftly decided not to let this one run and run. The pollster John Curtice has pointed out that this issue matters to voters, with two-thirds of them telling YouGov during the leadership contest last year that they considered Mr Sunak"out of touch" – his most negative trait in the survey.Starmer had a zinger on minimum service levels in the NHS, saying:"There's not a minimum level of service any day because they have broken the NHS".
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