Starmer to say UK's national health service needs 'major surgery'
"What we need is the courage to deliver long-term reform -- major surgery not sticking plaster solutions," Starmer was due to say, according to excerpts of his speech released to reporters.
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer has spent much of his first two months in power blaming the Tories for leaving Labour a dire inheritance in sectors ranging from health to the economy and prisons. AFP photo
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer will warn Thursday that Britain's state-run National Health Service must "reform or die" after an independent report said the venerated institution was in a