LABOUR say they will put a greater focus on dealing with health inequalities and have also insisted they are not anti-motorist.
Speaking to GB News Shadow Minister for Employment Rights, Justin Madders, said:
“We’re putting a greater focus on dealing with health inequalities across the country. This is not new. You can actually look at life expectancy across the UK and see that people can have vastly different life expectancies if they live sort of only 10 or 15 miles away from each other and that that is unacceptable. In a civilised society, we want people to have the same life experiences and the same life chances.

“We need to have a higher standard across the whole of the NHS. We’ll do that by investing in the workforce and putting it on a sustainable footing for the future.”
On the Government’s performance on cancer targets he added: ““It’s clear unfortunately that the two-week limit target in terms of cancer treatment has been abandoned by this Government.”

Meanwhile Mr Madders, the MP for Ellesmere Port, near Chester, also commented on the ULEZ scheme insisting Labour wasn’t in a war with the motorist.

He said: ”I represent a constituency that builds vehicles so I’m certainly in the camp of the motorists, but what I think we have to say is, first of all, if you want to deal with air pollution, you’ve got to come up with a plan to tackle it. The government insisted that Sadiq Khan come up with a plan. Clearly there is an issue at the moment about the affordability of these proposals, given that we’ve got a massive cost of living crisis we think he should be looking at pausing this at the very least, whilst we’re in this very difficult situation.”