Richard Tice has criticised the Labour Party for having "no answers", accusing the opposition of having "betrayed working people".
The Reform UK leader said the healthcare system is in "absolute crisis". He claimed that "no one’s listening to what the Tories say any more" but "there’s no answers from the Labour Party really on healthcare".
Giving an address on the state of the NHS, Tice said his party would offer tax breaks for people with private health insurance to ease pressure on the NHS.
At a press conference in London, he said: "The reality is that healthcare in the United Kingdom is an absolute crisis.
Richard Tice has criticised the Labour Party for having "no answers", accusing the opposition of having "betrayed working people"
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"If we just look at a few examples: despite record funding in the NHS, we’ve got record waiting lists, well over 7.5 million, and that’s just on the official list.
"We’ve got a staffing crisis. We’ve got an ambulance crisis, an A&E crisis.
"We’ve got an excess deaths crisis – for reasons that frankly most people either don’t know, or they don’t want to talk about, and that’s why we’ve committed to having an excess deaths inquiry.
"And sadly, unbelievably, we’ve actually got some of the worst outcomes on areas like cancer care, heart disease, in the developed world."
Tice also accused Labour of betraying working-class voters in favour of a “woke” agenda.
He said: “That’s the reality of what they’re doing. They no longer care, they have no plans, they have no solutions.
At a press conference in London, he said: "The reality is that healthcare in the United Kingdom is an absolute crisis"
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“All they’re focused on, frankly, are the woke, managerial middle class who happen to be eco-zealots.”
Tice this morning said Reform UK would abandon the net zero emissions drive, instead using the money to improve the NHS.
He said his party would aim to cut waiting lists across the health service to zero in two years.
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The Reform UK leader said: "Yes, it is going to take a bit of extra money but we are not going to give it to bungling NHS bureaucrats."
He said his plan for the NHS would require an extra £17 billion in funding each year, adding that his party estimates the cost of net zero would be about £30 billion a year.
Tice said: "We have a choice in this country, it seems to me. A pretty clear choice.
"Do we want zero waiting lists in two years and to keep them there, that is the Reform choice. Or do we want net zero CO2 emissions in 25 years? That is the Labour choice."