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NHS failures are predictable and were predicted. Theresa May has nowhere to hide

 

GOODNESS knows how flummoxed Theresa May would have become if she had attracted the same aggressive questioning from Andrew Marr as was directed at Labour’s shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth.

Despite Marr’s kid gloves treatment, the Prime Minister still resembled a rabbit caught in the headlights as she attempted to defend the shambles to which her government has reduced the NHS, especially in England.

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