Keir Starmer says NHS is ‘broken’ and in jeopardy under Tories

Labour also found that one person who called 999 for an ambulance was forced to wait for an hour-and-a-half before their call was answered. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA

Keir Starmer has said the NHS is “broken” and he believes the future of the health service is in jeopardy under the Conservatives.

The Labour leader accused the Tories of presiding over a “cycle of decline” as new research by his party shows that nearly a fifth of patients in England, which equates to 4.5 million people, went to A&E last year because they were unable to get a GP appointment.