On a video call with, for some reason, Conservative Friends of Israel, Matt Hancock has said, “I think that the old argument that ‘public sector good, private sector bad’ has been really demonstrated as completely false by the pandemic.
“I hope that that – what I regard as a sort of flawed political argument that used to hear a lot from the likes of Jeremy Corbyn – I hope that that has been proved completely wrong and false by the pandemic, and that we’ve really won the argument.”
In all fairness to Margaret Thatcher, she barely touched the National Health Service. It was Tony Blair, the old Trotskyist bookseller Alan Milburn, and the sometime Communist parliamentary candidate Paul Corrigan, who began to privatise the NHS, but only in England. They did that after having won a General Election with a campaign that had featured a countdown of days to save it.
The privatisation of the NHS, but only in England, is never, ever put to the electorate at a General Election. If Boris Johnson (or Rishi Sunak) and Hancock did put it to us next time, then that would be only because there was no longer a Labour Leadership that would have opposed it.
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