The Conservative Government admitting the National Health Services is on the brink of collapse as it prepares to put up tax for everybody is a damning admission of 12 years of Tory failure.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt, who as the longest serving Health Secretary in the history of the NHS shoulders much responsibility for this disaster, is an undertaker burying not only our most precious public service but also the living standards of tens of millions of Britons.
Increasingly vocal leaders of doctors and the rest of the health workforce deserved to be heeded or the Tories slashing key services with a scalpel will hurt us all.