Health Secretary Steve Barclay has been forced to distance himself from a former aide who called for the “full privatisation” of the NHS.
Leon Emirali, who worked in Barclay’s parliamentary office as a media aide until July 2020, used a TalkTV interview to declare that “politicians with the guts” should devise a plan to “rip the whole thing [the NHS] up and start again”.
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