LABOUR

is busy exploiting the NHs’s 70th birthday this year by launching a barrage of attacks about Tory ‘mishandling’ of the nation’s healthcare system. This deeply cynical campaign contrasts unfavourably with the dedicated work of Health secretary Jeremy Hunt, who this week boldly explored a new approach to funding, saying that the public would be happy to pay more tax to help the NHs. Labour should stop shroud-waving and accept that a royal commission with cross-party representation is the best way of getting any kind of consensus behind significant reform to the Health service.