Neglecting bay's hospital amounts to 'corporate vandalism', says MP

ORBAY’S Liberal Democrat MP has accused the previous Tory government of “corporate vandalism” as staff at the bay’s main hospital work in a crumbling building which is hit by sewage leaks.

- by GUY HENDERSON Local Democracy Reporter [e-mail]

And, he said, the current Labour government was “kicking the bay into the long grass” by failing to provide enough investment.

Steve Darling highlighted the plight of the hospital and its staff during a Westminster debate on NHS capital spending.

He said he knew the hospital was in a “difficult place” before he was elected in 2024, but he had been shocked by what he saw when he began to delve deeper.

“I was shocked by what was effectively wanton vandalism - corporate vandalism, even - undertaken by the previous Conservative government by making promises they just could not keep,” he said. “The vandalism - the fact they chose not to invest - made it much harder to invest in the longer term and made it more costly.”