The New Statesman
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Keir Starmer’s speech in Braintree in Essex on 22 May was a fine one.
If he makes it into government, it will make his life harder.
This is not ordinary politics. It is personal for most of us, and certainly for him.
The NHS is not only in crisis, it has become the central symbol for what is wrong with Britain today.
Three quarters of all cancers would be diagnosed at stage one or two; heart attacks and strokes would be reduced by a quarter; and suicide, an epidemic among the young, would be driven down with a major investment in mental-health care.
Most of this could be achieved within the first five years of a Labour government, but there are no plans to find extra funding beyond the 3.2bn the party estimates it would raise by abolishing the non-dom tax privileges.
Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary, is certain that the promises can be kept.
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