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Chris McCall

Nicola Sturgeon says Gordon Brown was warned of NHS privatisation threat before 2014 independence referendum

Nicola Sturgeon has said Gordon Brown was warned ahead of the 2014 independence referendum that the NHS could be threatened by creeping privatisation.

The First Minister told a press conference in Edinburgh today she "absolutely" agreed with a newspaper column written by the former Labour leader on the future of the health service.

Brown said senior Conservatives were "testing the water for a different kind of NHS" which could see the public charged for some services.

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