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Cameron on the ropes as Labour highlights plot to sack 2,000 nurses

LABOUR will put the spotlight back on the NHS today after exposing the Tory Party’s secret plans to sack 2,000 nurses.

Plans to make drastic staffing cuts as soon as the election is over are contained in official papers revealed by Labour at the weekend.

Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said that they showed “the NHS simply cannot take five more years of David Cameron.”

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