Skip to main content
Andy Burnham: We'll restore NHS to public hands

LABOUR shadow health minister Andy Burnham vowed to thousands assembled in Trafalgar Square on Saturday to strike down the Tories’ health privatisation agenda.

Dozens of health campaigners and politicians lined up to greet the March for the NHS as it swarmed into the heart of the capital.

And Mr Burnham pledged to the Darlington mothers at its head that his agenda if Labour wins power at next year’s general election would be to stop the sell-off in its tracks.

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
Similar stories
NHS staff blockade the entrance to NHS England's headquarters in central London demanding the cancellation of its contract with Palantir, which campaign groups say supplies advanced technology to Israel's military, April 3, 2024
Editorial / 3 July 2026
3 July 2026
NHS resident doctors outside Leeds General Infirmary, as thousands of resident doctors go on strike across England in a dispute over pay, November 14, 2025
Workers' Rights / 2 July 2026
2 July 2026
THE PRIVATEER: Wes Streeting
Features / 11 March 2026
11 March 2026

In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint