Rachel Wolf and Sam Freedman: The devastating truth is that the NHS did get £350m extra a week – it just barely made a difference
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5th October 2023
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The public are panicked about the NHS. Any focus group will have stories: teenagers waiting years to get an appointment, ageing relatives lying on the floor waiting for the ambulance, operations cancelled. In the public’s mind, nothing works. It doesn’t matter if you’re in mid Bedfordshire or North Yorkshire, health is a top priority and a top concern.
Yet underlying this understandable distress is a puzzle. People often ask “what about the £350m a week Brexit promised? Why did it disappear?” The truth is worse – it didn’t disappear.
