Jonathan Ashworth MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, responding to findings from a BBC investigation into ambulance service response times, said: 

“This is yet again more evidence of the huge pressures facing the NHS.

“Labour has been warning for weeks now of patients being forced to wait in long ambulance queues outside overcrowded A&E departments across the country.

“Under the Tories our NHS is underfunded and understaffed. The astonishing failure of the Chancellor to provide extra funding for the NHS and social care is proven to be more and more misguided every day.”