A senior Reform UK figure has accused successive governments of failing to address critical healthcare pressures, citing a 73-year-old woman’s death after a 23-hour ambulance wait in North Wales as evidence of systemic collapse. Drawing on medical estimates, he highlighted a sharp rise in deaths linked to emergency treatment delays, blaming both Conservative and Labour policies for the crisis. The speech framed the issue as a moral failure with direct consequences for working-class communities, while also subtly positioning closer EU ties as part of the problem. With the party pushing for a debate on immigration’s role in the strain, the intervention underscores growing political pressure over the NHS’s deteriorating state.
Reform UK leader claims there was no interference, saying ‘the Russia hoax has run all the way through this’Burnham to urge MPs to embrace closer ties with EUZia Yusuf, Reform UK’s home affairs spokesperson, is speaking now. He started his speech with an account of a 73-year-old woman dying in North Wales after having to wait 23 hours for an ambulance, and he sought to link this to immigration.He said:The Royal College of Emergency Medicine estimates that 15,000 people across Britain died last year due to excess wait times for emergency treatment. That’s 300 people a week, 300 lives destroyed, 300 families devastated.And that number has increased tenfold over the last decade. This is a moral outrage, and it is a direct result of decisions made by Tory and Labour governments.I don’t think that’s because he wants to have a fight over the European Union. I think that’s because he knows what we’re talking about today impacts hard in what is known as the red wall. Continue reading...
