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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

Boris Johnson’s flagship hospital scheme mired in delays, watchdog finds

Boris Johnson in hi-vis jacket and hard hat
Boris Johnson visits the construction site of a new children’s hospital at Leeds General Infirmary in October 2021. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Boris Johnson’s flagship hospital building programme and three levelling up funds are mired in delays and unlikely to deliver on time, two highly critical reports by parliamentary watchdogs have found.

In a sobering verdict on the former prime minister’s promise to build 40 hospitals by 2030, the public accounts committee said it had “no confidence” that even the new target of 32 would be delivered by that date.

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