Conservatives will break NHS funding pledge, Labour claims

Government is not promising enough money to meet pledge to increase real-terms funding for NHS in each year of parliament, Labour says

Labour has accused the Conservatives of breaking their manifesto pledge to increase real-terms funding for the NHS in every year of this parliament by not promising sufficient extra funds in the budget.

An analysis carried out for Labour by the House of Commons library shows that despite the chancellor, Philip Hammond, announcing an extra £2.8bn in day-to-day funding, real-terms funding per head is set to fall in 2018-19, and remain flat for two years after that.

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