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Sep 2024
34m 33s

Is Streeting Talking Down The NHS?

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Wes Streeting says the NHS is letting people down, but should he be spending so much time talking the health service down?


Hugo Rifkind unpacks the politics of the day with Robert Crampton and Jane Mulkerrins.


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