Keir Starmer today defended his plan to use private doctors to clear waiting lists - saying: “We’re not talking about privatising the NHS.”
The Labour leader said 233,000 more patients could have been seen in nine months if his plan to use spare private sector capacity had gone ahead.
He was confronted live on Sky News with his own 2020 leadership pledge to “end outsourcing in our NHS” - which he has dropped.
