Editorial: The prime minister said the NHS would be funded by the savings made from leaving the EU. When this becomes palpably false, he can blame no one but himself
Last year something odd happened. Public satisfaction with the National Health Service dropped to levels not seen since 2007, and it was the cause of much political feuding. Despite the Conservatives being in charge of the English NHS when it experienced underfunding, an escalating staffing crisis and a failure to meet waiting-time targets, opinion polls suggested the party, under Boris Johnson, was more trusted to care for the health service than Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour.
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