“…It is why NHS waiting lists are so long, why GP appointments are so difficult to get, why our prisons are full to overcrowding and so on. The Tories’ addiction to public spending cuts was driven by a misplaced faith in neoliberalism, an obsession with cutting the size of the state, reducing the role of government in ru…”
Record by topic
- NHS waiting lists310th of 5434.0
- GP access209th of 2472.0
- Learning disability & autism758th of 9052.0
- Public health & prevention585th of 7002.0
Also active on nhs waiting lists
What they’ve said
“…housing shortage which has been pushing up house prices and making private rents unaffordable, creating mammoth waiting lists for social housing and driving up the annual housing benefit bill, as the noble Lord, Lord Shipley, pointed out earlier.”
Housing Supply and Homelessness · 2024-12-05 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, seven years ago, on 19 December 2017, I said in your Lordships’ House—and I apologise for quoting myself but there is a reason—that “we all know that things cannot continue as they are. We number over 800 and rising … we have become not so much an embarrassment but, many say, a scandal.”
House of Lords Reform · 2024-11-12 · Read on Hansard ↗
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