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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Phillip Inman

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Streeting s reforms could save the nhs from the private sector he must not fail - Caught on Camera

Wes Streeting at a microphone against a dark background
Wes Streeting’s talk of reform has raised fears about a rightward drift in England’s health service. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

There is going to be lots of angst in Labour ranks about the government’s proposed health reforms. At first glance they appear to be a reheated collection of Blairite targets and financial strictures that smack of privatisation by the back door.

When the former health secretary and arch-Blairite Alan Milburn was installed by his successor Wes Streeting to oversee the shake-up, it was easy to see how fears of a rightward shift might be being confirmed.

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