PMQs verdict: May holds up better against Corbyn's NHS attack

The Labour leader was solid and convincing on the health service winter crisis, but the PM also had a point to make

After a Christmas period in which the NHS was under serious pressure, with operations being cancelled and patients waiting for hours in ambulances and being turned away due to a lack of hospital beds, it was no surprise that Jeremy Corbyn chose to devote the first PMQs of 2018 to Britain’s health service.

“It was in unparliamentary language – it included the word bust.

Theresa May on Angela Rayner saying Labour economic policy was “shit or bust”.

What will she say to the 17,000 people kept waiting in the back of ambulances in the week before Christmas? Is it “nothing is perfect”?

Jeremy Corbyn throws back May’s words on The Andrew Marr Show.

Continue reading... January 10, 2018 at 07:37PM