Keir Starmer today marks the NHS’s 75th birthday by pledging: “The NHS was my family’s lifeline; now it’s my job to get it off life support.”
The Labour leader tells movingly of his family’s experience of the health service, with his mum a nurse before she was hit by crippling Still’s Disease.
Mr Starmer is expected to speak at a special service at Westminster Abbey today celebrating the founding of the NHS under Labour in 1948.