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Star Comment: Andy Burnham's last stand
Shadow health secretary's apologism over new Labour's record on health should not overshadow his positive steps on rampant Con-Dem privatisation
Andy Burnham’s assault on the government’s galloping privatisation of the NHS in England is a welcome decision to fight on ground favourable to the Labour Party.
It combines an attack on David Cameron’s duplicity, having promised no top-down reorganisation of our health services, with a reminder that, for the Tories and Liberal Democrats, private profits are all-important.
No issue is more important for the majority of voters than the NHS — the post-war Labour government’s jewel in the crown.
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