Title: Delia Smith: I'm backing Labour to save the NHS because it can't be treated like a supermarket - Mirror Online
Headings: Delia Smith: I'm backing Labour to save the NHS because it can't be treated like a supermarket
Delia Smith: I'm backing Labour to save the NHS because it can't be treated like a supermarket
She warns that another Tory government would be a “recipe for disaster” for the health service
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Legend: Delia Smith (Image: PA)
Jeremy Hunt opens the new emergency department at Lister Hospital
Delia Smith 2002 (Image: BBC)
Delia: Why I'll vote Labour

Content: When I was about seven, 67 years ago, I recall we had a poster with a table light behind it in our front window saying, “Vote Labour for a National Health Service” in the year they were campaigning for it. Now what they pioneered and worked so hard for – which became the envy of the world – is in grave danger of being compromised or, at worst, ceasing to exist as we know it. Think back to the glorious opening ceremony to the Olympics in London in 2012 that was beamed around the world, and how we celebrated the NHS as one of our greatest achievements. In the past few years our NHS has gone backwards – we need to save it for the future. This is a life-defining election, although some people feel politics in general is getting older and a bit tired. But I would ask those to think more deeply. Labour has more vigour and younger candidates. Our future lies with them – their ideas and vision need to be heard. Which brings me to something else I care deeply about. For the future wellbeing of our planet, nations are going to have to connect and work together.