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Efford Bill strikes at Tories’ NHS nightmare
Fight now on to make sure back-bench bid to stop worst parts of Con-Dem health Act gets fair hearing
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Labour scored a symbolic victory in the historic fight to save the NHS yesterday as MP Clive Efford took a bonesaw to the Con-Dems’ sell-off schemes.
Not a single senior minister turned up to defend the government’s hated Health and Social Care Act in the face of Mr Efford’s back-bench bill.
He landed a terminal blow on coalition competition rules by leading 240 more MPs through the lobbies to ensure his Bill continues its progress through Parliament.
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