‘Populists’ will gain if NHS crisis continues unabated, Sir Ed Davey claims

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Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey takes aim at Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and US President Donald Trump as he sets out his party’s plans to end 12-hour A&E waits.The proposals would make 6,000 hospital beds available by the end of the year, Sir Ed said, adding they would be paid for by “scrapping the Government’s plan to hand an extra £3 billion a year to pharmaceutical giants to appease Donald Trump”.

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00:00If we don't show that we can change things, if we can't fix this crisis, that's when the

00:17populists and the extremists will take advantage. Not because they can fix it, because they can't.

00:24They're not even interested in fixing it, but because populists feed off disillusionment.

00:32They thrive when people simply don't believe that any government of any party can really

00:38make their lives better. So we have to show we can. We have to offer hope. And only the

00:47Liberal Democrats can do that.

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