You might have thought that normal hostilities at Prime Minister’s Questions would be suspended because of the chilling news from Paris of death and terror, but no. David Cameron’s condolences to and expressions of solidarity with the French people were perfunctory, and then he was straight into an answer, to a Liberal Democrat MP, about the NHS. Ed Miliband was greeted by the usual ironic cheers from the Tory benches, although they were cut short as MPs realised the Labour leader was about to pay his respects to the French too. But then it was off into six questions about the NHS. I give Miliband credit for putting a bit of thought into it. He had a theme, a sequence. After some of his questions he asked if it had not been obvious that changes would have an impact on Accident and Emergency services. Closing walk-in centres, cutting social care and spending £3bn on a top-down reorganisation: wasn’t it obvious that each of these would have an impact on A&E? Cameron fought back with spirit rather than conviction. He had two lines: Labour had “no solution to put forward”, and it was using the NHS “as a political football”. Both of those are certainly true but pretty weak as responses to this morning’s headlines about A&E waits at record levels. https://youtube/watch?v=BC9bNF1jEIU
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 06:38:02 +0000
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