Lord Winston attacks Labour's health policy

Lord Robert Winston, professor of fertility studies at the Hammersmith Hospital, London, and a Labour peer, publicly criticised his party last week for making “medical care deeply unsatisfactory for a lot of people.”

In an interview with the journalist Mary Riddell published in New Statesman magazine, Lord Winston discussed the care that his 87 year old mother recently received in an NHS hospital. “She waited 13 hours in casualty,” he said, “before getting …