OPINION - While Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss play to the gallery, the NHS is breaking apart
When Maria Caulfield, the junior health minister, replied to an urgent question in the House of Commons by Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary, on the ambulance crisis, she said she did not want to play politics with the National Health Service. It is a lovely thought but wholly naïve. As Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss compete with one another to see who can brief nastier nonsense about refugees, one of the issues that could sink their premiership is getting worse, and now it is screaming out at them from all the front pages.