John Major Was Good For Our Health

Following on from Sunday's posts about how John Major was a far more notable figure than either his predecessor (local princess, fee-paying school, Oxford, married a millionaire, called to the Bar, never looked back) or his successor (public school, Oxford, the Bar, carefully arranged safe seat at 30), and about how any war is really an expense to the NHS, it is worth remembering that Major believed passionately in the NHS.

The 1997 Election marked a dramatic shift to the Right both in terms of health spending and in terms of health organisation. And to this day, the Tories still have significantly more social democratic health policies than the Government has.