ANTI-privatisation campaigners gathered outside the Labour Party conference today morning to demand that leader Sir Keir Starmer commit to reinstating the NHS as a fully public service.
Protesters from We Own It wore masks of the most recent Tory prime ministers and cut into an NHS box using knives adorned with private company logos while a masked Sir Keir watched as delegates began arriving at the conference in Liverpool.
We Own It director Cat Hobbs said: “In 2010, the NHS was rated the most efficient and best-performing health service in the world.
“The message of our action … is that after 13 years of cuts and privatisation, Keir Starmer has an opportunity to be a hero to the NHS by committing, in his speech to conference, to reinstate it as a fully public service.
“We want to say to Keir Starmer that the public wants a leader who will stand up for our NHS.”
Ms Hobbs said the public call is “too clear for Labour to ignore.”
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