NHS to receive extra £384m a week, government to announce on Monday
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More than £350m extra a week for NHS, Hunt announces, as Theresa May locks Britain into leaving EU
Government to announce Brexit dividend for 70th birthday of NHS as Britain leaves the EU
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Originally Posted by Telegraph
Theresa May has agreed to pour an additional £384 million per week into the NHS after Brexit – exceeding the amount mooted by the official Leave campaign and effectively locking the UK into leaving the EU.
The boost for the health service, which the Prime Minister will set out in a speech tomorrow, is intended to mark the 70th anniversary of its creation, partly by drawing on the “Brexit dividend” that will arise from the country ceasing payments to the EU.
Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, who campaigned for Remain during the 2016 referendum, says the Brexiteer pledge of extra funding for the NHS “can now unite us all”.
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Originally Posted by Guardian
With more key parliamentary battles over the Brexit withdrawal bill expected this week the rebels believe May is trying to sell Brexit as a money-spinning course for the country to take, when they say the reality is that is loaded with economic risk. One senior Tory said it was “sickening” and “pathetic” that the government could claim Brexit would provide extra money for the NHS when the reverse would be the case.
In 2016, the UK government paid £13.9bn to the EU budget, according to the Office for National Statistics, and the EU funded projects and other spending in this country amounting to £4.4bn. But many economists argue that the cost of Brexit, in terms of loss of economic activity and therefore revenue to the Treasury, will far outweigh any budgetary gain from leaving.
Theresa May will spell out her plans on television interviews before explaining the changes to NHS staff in a major speech in London on Monday.
Government sources defended their record on the NHS, saying funding had increased every year since the party came to power in 2010. But they said it now urgently needed more to meet rising demand caused by people living longer, and the cost of more complex and effective treatments for patients with complex conditions.
Good stuff.
Now, abolish the Department for International Aid and spend that £11bn here in this country too!
