{"id":81504,"date":"2025-04-09T06:54:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T05:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=81504"},"modified":"2025-04-09T06:54:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T05:54:15","slug":"why-do-labour-keep-on-lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/04\/09\/why-do-labour-keep-on-lying\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do Labour keep on lying?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labour <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/over-1500-extra-gps-recruited-to-fix-front-door-of-the-nhs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed yesterday<\/a> that recruiting around 1,500 new part-time GPs, most of whom had previously been made redundant by the Tories, had solved the problem of getting a GP appointment in England.<\/p>\n<p>This is utter nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>According <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/996600\/gp-practices-in-england\/#:~:text=Number%20of%20GP%20practices%20in%20England%202016%2D2024&amp;text=As%20of%20December%202024%2C%20there,%2C%20Wales%2C%20and%20Northern%20Ireland.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to Statista<\/a>, there were 6,277 GP surgeries in England in December 2024. So, in less than one in four of them, there might be a new part-time GP. Some, of course, might have more than one.<\/p>\n<p>That means three in four of them have no new personnel.<\/p>\n<p>That means it will, inevitably, be no easier to get appointments in these surgeries wth no new doctors.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, what Streeiting had to say was nonsense. Statistically, it had to be.<\/p>\n<p>Why do Labour keep on lying?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour claimed yesterday that recruiting around 1,500 new part-time GPs, most of whom had previously been made redundant by the Tories, had solved the problem<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/04\/09\/why-do-labour-keep-on-lying\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-labour","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81507,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81504\/revisions\/81507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}