Boris Johnson... In 1995 he wrote in the Spectator magazine that free healthcare should be only for "those who are genuinely sick, and for the elderly." He added that "if people have to pay" for NHS services, "they will value them more.
In a 2004 Johnson write a column for The Daily Telegraph in which he lamented how individuals were paying “more and more in their taxes for this ‘unimprovable’ universal service”., again arguing for a private insurance system.
Matt Hancock, received £28,000 over eight years from Neil Record. Neil Record chairs the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA), an opaque lobby group that masquerades as a ‘charity’, refuses to divulge its donors and has a long history of calling for the privitisation of the NHS.
Michael Gove is a co-author (with Jeremy Hunt, Douglas Carswell and Kwasi Kwarteng amongst others) of ‘Direct Democracy’, which calls for the privatisation of the NHS, saying it “fails to meet public expectations" and is "no longer relevant in the 21st century".
“We need to break down the artificial barrier between public and private, which is sometimes compared to apartheid.”

“Our ambition should be to break down the barriers between private and public provision, in effect denationalising the provision of health care in Britain.”
Dominic Raab, Priti Patel, Liz Truss Kwasi Kwarteng and Chris Skidmore co-authored a book called 'After the Coalition', which calls for the privatisation of the NHS.
The ‘book’ attempts to define Conservative "values" for the time when the party wouldn't be “held back” by Lib Dems. They advocate for a health service where two-thirds of hospitals are run privately.
Priti Patel also worked for lobbying firm Weber Shandwick, which does PR for big healthcare and pharmaceutical firms.
Liz Truss is a crazed ‘free’ market libertarian, if you didn’t get that from ‘After the Coalition’, read ‘Britannia Unchained’, another piece co-authored with Rabb, Patel, Kwarteng and Skidmore.
Truss has already had a series of private meetings with rightwing American thinktanks to discuss deregulation and the benefits of “Reaganomics”.
Rees-Mogg is a senior Partner of Somerset Capital Management LLP, which has healthcare investor Redwood Emerging Markets Dividend Income Fund as a client.
SCM has so far invested in private hospitals in Brazil, pharmacies in South Africa and a firm behind the technology used in China to check the temperature of people in public places.
Hunt, responsible for more privatisation and outsourcing then anyone in the NHS’ history. By the time he became Health Secretary Hunt had received £32,920 from hedge fund baron Andrew Law, a major investor in healthcare firms.
His very first act as Health Secretary was to ensure that a £600 million deal with Richard Branson’s VirginCare went through. House of Commons Health Committee is now chaired by former Health Secretary...Jeremy Hunt.
“Jeremy Hunt was Health Secretary in 2017 when the request to give NHS staff more ppe was rejected. NHS staff should have received certain ppe three years ago in the event of an influenza pandemic, but stockpiling it was considered too expensive by the Department of Health.”
Iain Duncan-Smith is the former director of hygiene technology company Byotrol plc, which he has shares in. Byotrol is a UK based hygiene specialist and sells a range of anti-bacterial hand washes and cleaning supplies, its biggest customer is the NHS.
Nadhim Zahawi is a Non-executive director of recruitment company SThree, which specialises in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sector and staffs the NHS’ Clinical Commission Groups
Damian Collins spent almost a decade working for marketing agency M&C Saatchi, whose clients include PPP healthcare, AXA insurance, Astrazeneca, Pfizer and Merck. He still helps them out to this day.
Don't anyone tell me the NHS is safe with the tories
THEY WILL SELL IT AS SOON AS THEY CAN
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