Decision to approve Cumbria coalmine is ‘bad policy, bad politics’ and ‘environmental vandalism’, says Labour – as it happened

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Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary, has issued this statement about the latest performance statistics from NHS England. (See 9.51am and 10.27am.) He said:

The NHS is heading into this winter with more people waiting for treatment than at any time in history, and they are waiting longer than ever before.

Behind the statistics are people suffering, sometimes for months or even years, putting their lives on hold because of their pain and discomfort.

Gove prepared a statement on his way to a ministerial visit because he had to come back for an urgent question on the mine. He wrote up a statement for a UQ but it got turned into a ministerial statement.

Instead of writing a more substantial response, he delivered a speech very different to what had been provided. Lindsay is livid as it means we don't have a written copy.