Health secretary calls Tory plan ‘a work of fiction’ as Lib Dems accuse Labour of a ‘double betrayal’ of the public
Work on some of the 40 new hospitals Boris Johnson promised to build by 2030 will not begin until 2039, after a Labour rethink on a pledge it called “a work of fiction” by the Conservatives.
The cost of completing the urgently needed new facilities has rocketed from £20bn to close to £50bn after years of limited progress since Johnson first promised them in 2019.
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