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The Labour-led Welsh government has been criticised after new figures revealed record-breaking waits in A&E departments and for treatments.
According to official figures for July and August:
Activity levels in cancer services remain high with the second highest number of patients informed they did not have cancer and the third highest number of patients newly diagnosed with cancer starting their first definitive treatment.
Andrew Harrop, general secretary of the Fabian Society, the Labour thinktank, has published an article for LabourList welcoming Sir Keir Starmer’s The Road Ahead essay (which is published by the Fabians). Here is an extract.
The Road Ahead shows that ‘Starmerism’ is neither Blairite nor Corbynite. There are echoes of many past incarnations of Labour, but this is a plan focused on the future and rooted in the immediate lessons of the pandemic. The ‘contribution society’ offers a patriotism that rejects nationalism, a fair-minded but demanding partnership with business, and a vision of a society where there is opportunity for all and security for all – at home, on the street and in the workplace. It is a roadmap the Labour party can unite around.
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