HEALTH SECRETARY Wes Streeting is said to have privately warned that Labour’s plan for NHS funding, expected to increase by 4 per cent — about £8 billion — in the upcoming Budget is “not enough.”

A party source told the Times: “He told [Chancellor Rachel Reeves] that Labour couldn’t sell this as a Budget to save the NHS because it’s not enough money to make a transformative difference. 

“The amount of money you need just to stand still means that the health service will still struggle to see significant improvements in patient care and waiting times.”