‘Middle-class lefties’ won’t stop Labour using private sector to cut NHS backlog, Streeting says

Shadow health secretary says quicker treatment to stop working class families being left behind is more important than ideology

Middle-class lefties" will not stop a Labour government from using private hospitals to tackle the NHS's huge care backlog, the party's shadow health secretary has pledged.

Wes Streeting rejected the idea that paying private health providers to treat patients amounted to a betrayal" of the NHS and insisted that quicker treatment was more important than ideology.