The shadow health secretary says the NHS needs reform as he attacks left-wing critics of his ideas.
was the result of "12 years of failure to get our economy growing", pay freezes and funding cuts.
The care backlog is at a record high, with NHS England figures showing 7.2 million people were waiting to start routine treatment at the end of October. But Mr Streeting said Labour would not shy away from reform under the leadership of Sir Keir Starmer, who had planted the party "firmly in the centre-ground".
Mr Streeting said some "online bad-faith actors" had suggested he was "ambivalent about which my preferred option would be"."And it is in defence of the NHS's founding principles, funded through progressive taxation, free at the point of use, that I make the reform argument."The shadow health secretary was keen to distance himself not only from the current government, but also from Labour's recent past.
Indeed, if Momentum respond to their tail being tweaked this would further illustrate the growing gulf between the current leadership and the previous one.
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