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Andy Burnham: We'll restore NHS to public hands

LABOUR shadow health minister Andy Burnham vowed to thousands assembled in Trafalgar Square on Saturday to strike down the Tories’ health privatisation agenda.

Dozens of health campaigners and politicians lined up to greet the March for the NHS as it swarmed into the heart of the capital.

And Mr Burnham pledged to the Darlington mothers at its head that his agenda if Labour wins power at next year’s general election would be to stop the sell-off in its tracks.

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