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“PEOPLE have suffered here, as they have across the country, as a result of austerity and the way the government has treated the NHS — and especially its shocking treatment of NHS staff,” Richard Burgon told the Morning Star as he prepared for the official launch of his campaign for re-election as Labour MP for Leeds East parliamentary constituency yesterday.
The particular mention of the NHS as well as austerity comes partly because his constituency’s two biggest employers are St James’s Hospital — Jimmy’s of past TV fame — and Leeds City Council.
The Tory government’s butchery of local authority funding and its wrecking of the NHS are having a disproportionate effect on the people of Leeds East.
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