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Stephen Dorrell regularly trots it out. He's an ex-Tory Health Secretary, and currently on the Parliamentary Select Committee for Health.

It hasn't. And this is something that Cameron, Osborne and Hunt like to trot out. The problem with it is that demand for the NHS has been increasing at the rate of 4% per annum. That amounts to all sorts of problems over a five year period, as is now panning out. Lucky Tories have (thus far) got...

NHS spending is comparatively low, when compared to other affluent countries. It's especially low -- a decade ago, it was about half -- when compared with the US (7.5% versus 15% of GDP). They don't want you to know this, because it rather jars with the neoliberal narrative that the public...