Liz Kendall: Tory NHS plans are "fantasy funding promises"
Labour is focusing its election campaigning on maternity services, with a manifesto pledge that women in England will receive one-to-one care from midwives during labour.
Labour has also pledged an extra two and a half billion pounds a year for the NHS funded by a mansion tax.
Liz Kendall, Shadow Minster for Care & Older People, told Today "we will do whatever it takes to get the NHS the money its needs” and was critical of Conservative NHS funding plans.
She added: “we do not think it is right to make fantasy funding promises… from a Tory party that is quite frankly panicking at the moment because it’s not got any clear vision for the country or the NHS”.
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