LABOUR’S Emily Thornberry has slammed the Government after research carried out by the party indicated that some 120,000 people died last year whilst waiting for NHS treatment.
The Shadow Attorney General told GB News: “The NHS constitution says that you have a right to see a doctor within 18 weeks and that isn’t happening and people are dying in pain and fear hoping that there’s going to be help coming and that help doesn’t come.
“The NHS was not behaving like this when there was a Labour Government. I’m sorry to say this, but it is the truth.
“Over the last 13 years we have seen the way in which the NHS has been diminished under this Conservative government and they have no plan for doing anything about it.”
In a discussion during Breakfast with Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster, she continued: “It may be one of Rishi Sunak priorities, getting rid of the waiting lists, but the waiting lists have gone up by 600,000 since Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister, so this isn’t going well.
“It does seem to me that when you ask him what it is that he’s going to do, all he does is blame the doctors who are on strike, but we have seen from the statistics that these waiting lists have been getting worse and worse over the last five years.
“He cannot simply blame doctors for going on strike for a few weeks. It has been going on for years and years and they do not have a plan to do anything about it.”
She added: “We’re going to bring the waiting list down. First of all, we’re going to increase the number of doctors and nurses and we have a plan for that and we also have a plan for paying for it.
“We’re going to close the loophole which still exists that allows people who are non-dom, who are from abroad who live in this country who don’t pay any taxes, so we’re going to get rid of that.”
