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Philip Collins, a member of Tony Blair’s team in Downing Street, writing in today’s Times.

Of the 119 years that have elapsed since Labour issued its first manifesto, it has spent only 33 of them in office and 13 of them were won by the unperson Blair. There have been 31 elections and Labour have won a working majority just five times. Yesterday, with the publication of the Labour manifesto , we saw why.

It’s quite clear that the thinking of people like you has kept Labour out of office so many times because it’s light years from the centre ground where the vast majority of the voting population stand.
If you think I’ve fabricated the above you can buy a copy of the Times and read it. Similarly you can go to the National Audit Office website and check the chart I posted above.
In the UK there are 414,000 nurses on a full time equivalent basis. At any one time vacancies due to childbirth, ill health, nurses leaving,retirement and early retirement leave temporary and permanent vacancies for over 20,000 nurses. Since 2010 the population growth has outstripped the number of training places for nurses by around 4% thus creating further vacancies. Brexit has also affected EU recruitment of nurses.