Responding to Sir Keir Starmer’s speech setting out the government’s ‘plan’, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey says the prime minster was "moving the goalposts" and calls the lack of GPs "a big part of the problem”. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00After the chaos of the Conservatives, we really did need real change, but I'm afraid this
00:04looks like we're moving the goalposts. It's all right having milestones, but you need
00:08a plan, particularly for our NHS, and I didn't really hear that from the Prime Minister.
00:13Liberal Democrats want to see farmer investment in things like GPs and social care to relieve
00:18the pressure on hospitals, and I didn't hear that. Everyone wants to see the waiting lists
00:22go down. It's one of the worst legacies of the Conservatives, with over three million
00:26people stuck on waiting lists for over 18 weeks. It was a disastrous legacy from the
00:31Conservatives. But what Liberal Democrats are arguing for is we need to take the pressure
00:35off the hospitals so they can get those waiting lists down, and with too few GPs and people
00:41not able to access their GPs, that is actually a big part of the problem. So what we're saying
00:46as Liberal Democrats, we have a plan. Let's fix it by investing in GPs and community pharmacists.
00:52Let's make sure we have social care, and those two ideas, big reform ideas, would take the
00:58pressure off the hospitals so the waiting lists could come down.