NHS will be Tories’ ‘achilles heel’ at next election, ministers warned

The NHS will be the Conservatives’ “achilles heel” at the next election, ministers have been warned in a new report by a former government special adviser on health.

Richard Sloggett said the Tories’ standing has been badly undermined by their failure to deliver on most of the pledges to improve the NHS they made at the 2019 general election.

“The NHS is back as the Conservatives’ electoral achilles heel,” Sloggett said in a…