BORIS’S 32 ‘IMAGINARY HOSPITALS’

PM slammed as patients suffer

- MARTIN BAGOT

• £20BN Estimated real cost of Tories’ new hospital programme – previously given as £3.7bn

MOST of the 40 “new hospital” projects promised by Boris Johnson are unlikely to be finished by the next general election.

Just one has been completed, while building work has started on seven.

Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting said: “There’s no sign of these 40 new hospitals. The only place they seem to exist is in Boris Johnson’s imagination.”