Chancellor and former health secretary makes frank comments on NHS to constituents as he battles for re-election
Jeremy Hunt visiting NHS staff during his time as Chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee in 2020. He likened the targets imposed on the NHS to Stalinistic quotas, and accused the Prime Minister of holding back efforts to cut waiting lists.
He said failures to recruit doctors and nurses to tackle waiting lists had been blocked by Sunak when he was Chancellor. This was greeted with a ripple of laughter, as Hunt indicated the Prime Minister was happy to leave him to deal with the cost as the new chancellor. “Stalin would frankly be proud of the number of the targets we have in the NHS and I think it is really holding us back.”
Hunt also suggested Tory leadership contests should bypass members and be decided only by MPs when the party is in government.The system was heavily criticised after the membership chose Liz Truss, who went on to deliver a disastrous tax-cutting mini-budget which spooked the markets and resulted in higher interest rates.
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