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HERO health warrior Harry Smith moved Labour conference to tears yesterday with a warning that Britain risks returning to its “bleak” past if the NHS is privatised.
The 91-year-old described how his sister died in a workhouse hospital and recalled the screams of a neighbour dying from cancer without morphine.
“It was a bleak time and an uncivilised time because public healthcare didn’t exist,” he told the conference.
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