Last week we were transported to Russian Federation once again by David Cameron, who seems rather obsessed with his historical references with which to compare Jeremy Corbyn’s left-wing team.
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“If he’s trying to move the Labour party to the left I’d give him full Marx”.
Reaching for his notes, the PM added: “If you want to know who is heading for a winter crisis, I would predict it is the Labour party!”
The issue was raised during Prime Minister’s Questions by Angus Robertson, Westminster SNP leader.
Corbyn also asked about if there will be a winter crisis in the NHS, which he said could happen due to problems with waiting lists and deficits in many hospitals. Quoting Dr Cliff Mann at the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, he warned that “this winter would be worse than last winter and last winter was the worst winter we’ve ever had in the NHS”.
Last week he said in a discussion about tractor manufacturing (yes, really) that Mr Corbyn’s new spokesperson is “apparently, a great admirer of the Soviet Union” and therefore would love to hear about tractors, deftly stereotyping an entire political movement. The winter NHS crisis is a huge concern, and the Prime Minister used it to engage in political point scoring.
The prime minister replied that he had dealt with the financial challenge by appointing Simon Stevens as the chief executive of NHS England, who called for an extra £8bn in funding, which the government had increased to £10bn.
The Prime Minister added that the Conservatives had suffered a defeat in the House of Lords and were looking at the proposals.
“I ask a question from Kieran, a veteran of the first Gulf War who is set to lose out”. “Is this how the government treats veterans of the armed services”, Corbyn said, prompting the prime minister to say that soldiers would benefit from the raising of the personal tax free allowance.
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Mr Cameron said: “These remembrance services are very important right up and down our country and the military covenant, I think, is one of the most important things that we have where we make a promise to our military that, because of the sacrifices they make on our behalf, they should not have less good treatment than other good people in our country”.
