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Cameron’s Conservatives drop NHS as “our top priority” as poll gap shrinks

As their poll lead crumbles – and the latest poll shows Labour just 2 points behind – Cameron’s Conservatives seem to have decided to downgrade claims to back the NHS.

A couple of weeks ago the Conservatives released a leaflet explaining what their top priorities were, declaring that the NHS is “our top priority”.

More recently however, in another Tory leaflet [pdf], Conservative Central Office downgrades the NHS to just 4th place.

A Labour insider said: “The public can see a con job when they see it. To drop your top priority from first to fourth place in a fortnight, just because the polls are narrowing, says all you need to know about Cameron’s lot.

“It’s simply not credible for the Tories to claim to be the NHS’s friend after they starved it of investment, nurses and doctors in the 1980s and 1990s. This is just confirmation that their love of the NHS is only skin deep.”

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