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Starmer Blames Tories for ‘Broken’ Health Service in England
- Tory governments dealt ‘unforgiveable’ damage, he tells BBC
- Strains at NHS contribute to sense the British state is broken
Keir Starmer
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer blamed his Conservative predecessors for leaving England’s health service in a “broken” state, in his latest effort to frame the political narrative ahead of what’s expected to be a difficult budget proposal next month.
Successive Tory-led governments dealt “unforgiveable” damage to the National Health Service in the 14 years before his Labour Party’s landslide election victory in July, Starmer told the BBC in an interview set to air on Sunday.