Starmer tells NHS staff they have ‘once-in-generation’ chance to reshape health service – UK politics live
PM says Labour want to hear from as wide a number of people as possible in NHS consultation
Robert Jenrick, who is seen as the underdog behind Kemi Badenoch in the Tory leadership contest, has said that if he wins, Conservative candidiates at the next election will have to support his plan for Britain to leave the European convention on human rights.
In an interview on Radio 4’s Westminster Hour last night, he said:
If we were lucky enough to win the next general election, then this would be part of our manifesto. So yes, it would be Conservative party policy, and those choosing to stand at the election would have to support it, as they do any other important policy that’s part of the manifesto.
I think it’s disrespectful to the members and the public to ask for their votes without saying where you stand on the big issues facing our country today.
A plan today is what I offer. A promise of a plan at some point in the future is what my opponent offers, and I don’t think that’s the way to rebuild the public’s trust and confidence in us.
There are some obvious things that I think we do need to do. We need to go from analogue to digital, we need to use much better technology, whether that is in the ambulance service, in our hospitals, in our neighbourhoods, making much more use of technology.
We want to hear from you and from as wide a number of people as possible, both in the NHS and people who are using the NHS, because this needs to be the once-in-a-generation opportunity for you to put your fingerprints on the future – literally to craft the service that you are working for.
This is a really important conversation to create that NHS of the future, a moment in our history.
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