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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Adam Forrest

Labour’s Wes Streeting claims ‘wasteful’ NHS using winter crises as excuse for cash

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Labour’s shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has accused the “wasteful” NHS of using repeated winter crises as “an excuse to ask for more money”.

The key figure in Sir Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet said the public needed “to hear the truth about the NHS” – promising a “tough love” approach to running the health service.

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