It has been mildly diverting to read the somewhat overworked spin fostered by Lib Dems, and faithfully repeated elsewhere, that it was Nick Clegg who successfully forced government back-tracking over NHS ‘reforms’.
The problem with this particular interpretation of events is today’s announcement that is the NHS Future Forum, an independent body which carried out a two-month consultation and which is now calling for a more gradual overhaul. So either this was an independent exercise conducted without political influence or it is something designed to make the government’s medicine more palatable. Either way, it is clearly being doled out by the spoonful.
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