BEREAVED families who have lost loved ones due to long A&E waits unveiled a memorial outside the Conservative Party headquarters in Westminster today.

The memorial bench pays tribute to the thousands of NHS patients who died waiting for emergency care during the last five years of the Tory government and its reckless underinvestment in the service. 

The bench was unveiled by Samina Rahman, whose husband died from a heart attack after waiting 80 minutes for an ambulance to arrive, and Mathew Hulbert, whose mother died of sepsis two days after falling in her home and waiting 11 hours for an ambulance.