, Columnist
Britons Have Good Reason to Lose Faith in the NHS
The Tories aren't entirely to blame for the dire state of the NHS, but the party missed big opportunities to make it better.
Where to start?
Photographer: Mary Turner/Bloomberg (2023)
This is part of a series on what 14 years of Tory rule have delivered for Britain’s economy, society and standing in the world. The challenges awaiting the next government are numerous.
Anecdotes aren’t data (as the apparently oft-misquoted saying goes), but over the past 14 years the two paint a depressingly similar picture of Britain’s National Health Service.