Audience erupts as Tory peer TAKES APART Labour for its FAILED policy of EU membership
LORD Michael Forsyth blamed Labour party policies for the NHS crisis in a fiery rant during Question Time that received a huge response from the audience.
Question Time: Forsyth blames Labour EU attitude for NHS crisis
Tory peer Michael Forsyth gave a rousing speech blaming the Labour Party for the NHS crisis. The issue has to come the fore as senior government figures tussle with Theresa May.
Speaking on BBC Question Time, the peer was asked about the clash between Theresa May and Philip Hammond as the Chancellor called for Brexit to be a “modest” break from the EU in a recent interview in Davos.
Lord Forsyth said the discrepancies of the cabinet will be resolved by sticking to the key Brexit points the Prime Minister made in the Lancaster House speech.
He blamed Labour’s EU attitude towards freedom of movement for the current NHS crisis more than the cabinet disagreements.
He said: “It’s going to be resolved by doing what the Prime Minister set out in her speech at Lancaster House which is returning to us the ability to decide our own laws, decide how we spend our money and decide who we allow coming into our country.
“But one of the reasons there’s an enormous pressure on our health service is because under Labour they lost control of immigration.
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There’s an enormous pressure on our health service because Labour lost control of immigration
“Our population went up by more than two million, you cannot put your population up by two million and not expect pressure on our roads, our schools and on our hospitals.
“We need to be able to control our borders and decide what our laws are.”
Lord Forsyth added that those in the Cabinet who don’t agree with Theresa May should resign and refrain from giving interviews that would jeopardise the Brexit negotiations.
He said: “I think that the cabinet has got to reach a collective view and they have to support the Prime Minister, and the vast majority of Tory MPs do.
“If people don’t agree with the policies of the Prime Minister then they leave and they resign.
“What they don’t do is remain in the cabinet and go off briefing and making speeches which give ambiguity and which undermine our national interest.”