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By Christian May The Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, said last week that the UK risks becoming “a country with an NHS attached.” Coming from a Labour MP this constitutes admirable candour. The problem is, we’re long past that point already. The NHS is by far the biggest employer in the country (over two million people) with a budget amounting to roughly ten per cent of GDP. Neither of these figures is likely to decline, not least because demand for NHS services will continue to grow. The Office for National Statistics projects that the UK population will rise from 68m to 82m by the mid-2070s….

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