Sir Keir Starmer insists his NHS proposals are costed At an event in Essex, Sky News asked the Labour leader about funding for his proposals to save the NHS Read more:
And the third was centred on the"three killers", with pledges to get heart attacks, cardiovascular disease and strokes down by a quarter in a decade and that 75% of all cancer will be diagnosed at stage one or two.
Asked whether whether more money would go into the NHS under his leadership, Sir Keir replied that money was"part of the solution" but added:"It's not all about money." Asked whether voters could trust his plans if he"wasn't prepared to say how much they will cost", Sir Keir replied:"Let's just call a spade a spade - where we've made a proposal about the change we're going to make, we've said how it's going be funded. So this challenge you put to me that we've not said where the money is coming from, it's just wrong.
"Labour is right in its ambition to create a 21st century plan for a 21st century NHS. But there also needs to be a plan for investment alongside these bold reforms to help make such an aspirational target believable.
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