article_snippet.sent: Mr Osborne was challenged 18 times yesterday to explain where the next Tory government would find the extra £8billion the next Tory government has promised the NHS.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Osborne said it would come from the Conservatives’ ‘balanced plan’ for the economy, but declined to go into further detail.
article_snippet.sent: You’ve just found an extra £8billion.
article_snippet.sent: No higher taxes, extra public spending cuts?
article_snippet.sent: Osborne Mr Osborne replied: 'Well it’s part of our balanced plan.
article_snippet.sent: And if you look over the last five years …’
article_snippet.sent: Mr Osborne insisted, however, that the Conservatives had shown in government that the Conservatives were able to make the savings necessary to deliver additional funding for the NHS.
article_snippet.sent: We have a balanced plan to grow We economy, to make savings in government including in welfare to fund We NHS each and every year,’ he said.
article_snippet.sent: We have to make similar savings each year that We have made for five years of this parliament but for two years.
article_snippet.sent: We have a track record in this parliament where We found almost £8billion extra in real terms for the National Health Service in very, very difficult economic circumstances
article_snippet.sent: , We have proved We ability to stand behind the National Health Service in this parliament.
article_snippet.sent: The reality is that the spending programme that they have put forward is a threat to cut the NHS,’ she said.
article_snippet.sent: People know that People find it harder to see People GP since the Tories came into government, People know that People wait longer in accident and emergency and that waiting lists are starting to grow.
highlights_snippet.sent: Mr Osborne only said it would come from Conservatives’