Rishi Sunak has admitted he has “failed” to fulfill his key pledge to chop NHS ready lists.
Instead, ready lists have gone up by round half one million since then.
In an interview with Piers Morgan on TalkTV, Sunak admitted “we have not made enough progress”.
Morgan then requested him: “You failed on that pledge?”
The PM replied: “Yes, we have.”
Morgan mentioned: “You said, NHS waiting lists will fall. In fact, they are slightly coming down now. But the waiting list is still nearly half a million more than it was at the start of last year. Do you accept that?”
The PM mentioned: “Yes. And everyone knows the explanations for that and what I’d say to individuals is look we’ve invested file quantities within the NHS, extra medical doctors, extra nurses, extra scanners.
“All this stuff imply that the NHS is doing extra at this time than it ever has been. But industrial motion has had an influence.”
Junior medical doctors and consultants have been taking strike motion for properly over a yr, though NHS nurses did agree a settlement with the federal government.
Sunak additionally promised to halve inflation, minimize debt, develop the economic system and cease the small boats carrying asylum seekers throughout the Channel.
Of the 5 pledges, just one – halving inflation – has undoubtedly been achieved.
