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New figures show that Theresa May is failing millions of NHS patients – Jonathan Ashworth

Jonathan Ashworth, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, commenting on NHS England Combined Performance Statistics for March released today, said:

“Theresa May’s winter crisis is stretching into summer and it is NHS patients who are paying the price. The Tories have caused chaos in A&E and have admitted that waiting times are only going to continue to grow. The truth is that standards of care for NHS patients have collapsed this winter because years of Tory underinvestment have left staff unable to cope with rising demand, and cuts to out of hospital care have left patients stuck in hospital even when they’re well enough to go home.

“Thousands more people are waiting for A&E care and routine treatment every week because of the failures of this Tory Government. Behind every one of these statistics is a patient and their family in pain because of Theresa May’s refusal to give the health service the funding it needs.

“At this election only Labour are promising to give the NHS the funding it needs to deliver the standards of care which patients expect. By guaranteeing and upholding the standards of service to which patients are legally entitled under the NHS Constitution Labour will help millions of people who are being failed by Theresa May and the Conservative Government.”

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Labour’s leaked plans for Scotland spell more chaos and confusion

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11 May 2017

Miles Briggs Choice

Labour’s leaked election manifesto has exposed more confusion in the party’s position on a second independence referendum.

The document commits a Labour government to establishing “a constitutional convention to examine and advise on reform of the at Britain works at a fundamental level”.

It follows Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale’s call for Britain to become a federal country, with looser ties between Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Ms Dugdale said in February a federal UK should be an option on the ballot paper in the event of a second independence referendum.

The following month, Jeremy Corbyn said he was “absolutely fine” with a second referendum being held.

Scottish Conservative candidate in Edinburgh South West Miles Briggs said:

“Labour’s leaked manifesto claims the party is opposed to a second referendum – yet we know Jeremy Corbyn has said he is “absolutely fine” with a referendum.

“Just as Labour can’t seem to publish a manifesto properly, nor can we trust a word they say on the Union.

“The SNP’s obsession with independence is costing Scotland dear, as this week’s shameful statistics on the state of our education system shows.

“Years and years of Labour navel gazing over the constitution would be just as damaging and who knows where it would end?”

Announcing her support for federalism last December, Kezia Dugdale said details should be thrashed out in a constitutional convention that “would follow the model” of the Scottish Constitutional Convention – raising the prospect of years of constitutional wrangling.

The body dominated political debate in Scotland for six years, from 1989 to 1995, before the creation of the Scottish Parliament.

Scottish Labour’s plan for federalism is vague but potentially could leave only defence, foreign affairs and the currency as UK-wide issues – similar to the SNP’s discredited proposal for ‘full fiscal autonomy’.

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The Tories’ failed economic plan is holding Britain back – John McDonnell

John McDonnell, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, commenting on today’s Bank of England Inflation report, said:

“Today’s downgraded growth, earnings and productivity forecasts and upgraded inflations forecasts, signal bad news for living standards under the Tories.

“These forecasts from the Bank of England come on the back of disappointing growth for the first three months of the year and downgraded forecasts from leading independent forecasters for the UK economy.

“There is no hiding from the truth. The Tories’ failed economic plan is holding Britain back, and is undermining our economy and threatening working people’s living standards.

“This General Election is a choice between a Labour Party who will stand up for the many and a Tory Party which only looks after the privileged few.”

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