NEW government legislation will “Americanise” the NHS and push Britain’s health system towards its demise, left MPs warned in Parliament today.

In a debate led by Leeds East Labour MP Richard Burgon, MP after MP reported on a service already struggling to cope in their constituencies following a decade of underfunding, thousands of exhausted staff forced out, and billions of pounds siphoned off to the private sector.

A Tory MP who defended his party’s record was told that the Conservatives voted 22 times against the creation of the NHS before its creation by Labour in 1948 — and had been working to undermine it ever since.