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Wales Online
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Will Hayward

The Welsh Tories and the hole at the heart of their rhetoric on the NHS

A bizarre exchange with the Welsh Conservatives seems to suggest they have no idea how they would fulfil their promises to "fully fund" the Welsh NHS.

On June 12 WalesOnline published a special report on how the Welsh NHS had been underfunded for the past 12 years and looked at whether it was the Conservative UK Government in London or the Labour Welsh Government in Cardiff who were to blame. The piece, which you can read here, concluded that than both government's needed to share the blame with the UK Government cutting Wales' funding and the Welsh Government failing to pass on all the Barnett consequential from health to the Welsh health service.

Following the publication of the report the Welsh Conservatives issued a statement saying that Welsh Labour were to blame and that "the Welsh Conservatives would fully fund our NHS".

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