Wes Streeting – 2023 Comments on Sajid Javid’s Suggestion of Charging for Using NHS

The comments made by Wes Streeting, the Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on Twitter on 21 January 2023.

Over my dead body.

An NHS free at the point of use has been its central equitable principle for 75 years. Patients should never have to worry about the bill.

It’s up to Labour, which founded the NHS, to grip the biggest crisis in its history and make it fit for the future.