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Streeting reportedly warns that Labour's NHS funding plan is ‘not enough’

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.”

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