With the NHS about to implode, Rishi Sunak’s case for the private sector is getting stronger ✒️ IsabelHardman for ipaperviews
The Prime Minister will need show the electorate that he’s done the best he can to limit the damage caused by spiralling NHS waits
What is Rishi Sunak most worried about as he mulls the Tories’ chances at the next general election? The Prime Minister took over from his predecessor with a promise to steady the ship after the economic turmoil caused by Liz Truss’s disastrous “mini-Budget”. Senior Tories privately think they’ve got the economy back under control, and are fretting more about another implosion that’s not reached its worst point.
On Wednesday, the Prime Minister turned up to a committee chaired by a junior minister. He then press released his attendance to underline how important it was. This was the first meeting of the Elective Recovery Taskforce, which is supposed to emulate the success of Kate Bingham’s vaccine taskforce during the pandemic. Prime Ministers don’t rock up to committees like this unless they are genuinely anxious about the things the members are discussing. And Sunak is right to be.
, with more record-breaking data. Just 68.9 per cent of people were seen within four hours last month in Accident and Emergency departments in England – the target was 95 per cent. The news bulletins are regularly filled with footage of trolleys lining up in hospital corridors and ambulances queuing outside, unable to take more patients in.
Much of Sunak’s work as Prime Minister is damage limitation. When it comes to the economy, many Conservatives think the damage done by the short-lived Truss experiment won’t be something they’re forgiven for, but that with, they can at least show the electorate they’ve done the best they can.
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