Jarrow MP Kate Osborne slammed the Conservative Party's NHS reforms in a scathing speech during a Westminster debate this week - saying that the NHS was at crisis point and being "privatised by the back door".
Ms Osborne spoke during a Westminster Hall debate discussing the pressures on emergency and urgent care and ambulance services around the UK. While she backed NHS staff who are "doing their best to cope", she attacked the Government for what she said was "pushing the NHS to the brink".
In response, the now-resigned health minister Edward Argar defended the Conservative Party's record, and said issues around privatisation and bed closures had been first introduced by Labour administrations prior to 2010. Mr Argar was among those to resign on Wednesday in a bid to call time on Boris Johnson's premiership.
