Save NHS from Tories

THE huge popular support for a tax rise to save the NHS leaves the Conservatives now no excuse for starving it of vital funds.

More than four out of five voters – and nearly as many Tories as Labour – back a National Insurance increase of 1p in the pound

This thumping mandate, from a ComRes opinion poll for the Mirror, shows how frighteningly out of touch dithering Theresa May is with the national mood.

She is stranded between indecision and her ideological hostility to public service.

One third of us is prepared to switch votes to revive the NHS – a warning to the Prime Minister that she is courting disaster if a Tory civil war nudges up spending by so little that the NHS remains in crisis.

Gordon Brown’s call in this newspaper for a modest tax rise for the NHS struck a chord. This is the way forward, combined with closing loopholes exploited by big, rich corporations.

We love the NHS and we are prepared to pay for it. Mrs May and the Tories have run out of excuses for their poisonous failed austerity.