“Well I hope the New Statesman have now got their headline,” the Conservative shadow health minister Mark Simmonds said at a heated moment in the debate with the Labour Health Secretary, Andy Burnham, and the Liberal Democrats’ health spokesman, Norman Lamb. “Which is that the Conservative Party is the only party to maintain and guarantee funding for the National Health Service.”
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