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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dave Burke

Labour vows to bring back Tony Blair-style NHS targets to bring down waiting times

Keir Starmer has said a Labour government would bring back Tony Blair-style NHS targets to cut waiting times for patients.

The opposition leader accused the Tories of presiding over a "broken" system and said his team would be focused on tackling long waits.

He said that successive Conservative governments had overseen a "cycle of decline" that poses an existential threat to the health service.

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