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Sorry, but if we really want better public services, the NHS will have to take a hit

Sorry, but if we really want better public services, the NHS will have to take a hit

A healthy dose of scepticism should always be applied to any government spending announcements—especially when the accompanying spin machine hits the afterburners to push messaging about supposed winners while ignoring the inconvenient losers. Indeed, such was the attention on this particular spending review that Rachel Reeves’s seat hadn’t even warmed the green benches before the number-crunching began.

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