Streeting: Sunak ‘failed' in NHS waiting list promises

Labour has said it would create two million more appointments in English health services with extra evening and weekend working, funded by closing tax loopholes and cutting tax avoidance.

Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said Rishi Sunak had failed to cut waiting lists, as he promised, and they were higher now than when the former chancellor became PM.

He said he did not who the PM was “trying to kid” with his plans to cut hospital queues.

PM defends NHS record as targets missed in England