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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Aubrey Allegretti Senior political correspondent

Government on track to break Boris Johnson’s ‘40 new hospitals’ promise

Boris Johnson as prime minister visits a construction site in August 2020 at Hereford county hospital
Boris Johnson as prime minister visits a construction site in August 2020 at Hereford county hospital, where three wards were being built. Photograph: Matthew Horwood/Getty Images

The government is on track to break a key election promise from Boris Johnson to build 40 new hospitals in England by the end of the decade, a damning report by the public spending watchdog has found.

Delays to projects mean the target is unlikely to be met, with work on buildings in the second cohort of the scheme yet to have started as of May, according to the National Audit Office.

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