After 12 years in office, the Tories can’t wriggle out of responsibility for the workforce crisis engulfing the National Health Service in England.
Past PMs David Cameron and Theresa May, along with the outgoing Boris Johnson must shoulder their share of the blame.
And leadership rivals Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss can’t escape as they have been willing members of this woeful Government.
The Commons all-party Health and Social Care Committee’s damning report highlights years of neglect, poor decisions, bad planning and financial straitjackets under the Tories.
Health and social care, key services, were treated with shocking indifference by successive Prime Ministers and Health Secretaries.
Recruiting qualified staff to fill crippling vacancies won’t be easy with too few trained and miserly pay awards.
Health and social care were in better hands under Labour – and will be again.
Failing Britain
Ordering homes to turn down thermostats and switch off lights to avoid Winter blackouts will expose dire supply failures in our privatised energy industry.
Contingency plans discussed by the National Grid are fresh evidence of basic infrastructure failing in a Britain where hospital waiting lists are at record levels, courts can’t cope and obtaining a new passport is a lottery.
Electricity and gas companies, making huge profits, deserve hefty fines and public shaming if they don’t do their job. The invasion of Ukraine is no excuse.
Sky high bills and encouraging customers to use less energy are bad enough. Blackouts would be intolerable.
Sarina’s pride
Lionesses coach Sarina Wiegman’s ruthless winning mentality is why our women footballers won’t fear Sweden in tomorrow’s Euro 2022 semi-final.
Victory in the big match at Bramall Lane would give all of England a much needed lift.
