Andy Burnham MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, responding to news that ambulances face long delays at A&E, said:

“Winter is setting in, but David Cameron is still dangerously complacent about the crisis in England’s A&Es. His failure to face up to it is having a serious knock-on effect on ambulance services.

“Ambulances are trapped in queues at A&Es unable to hand over patients at bursting hospitals. Ministers are leaving large swathes of the country without adequate ambulance cover - people who have faced an anxious wait for an ambulance will be stunned by their complacency.

“David Cameron’s fingerprints are all over the A&E crisis. It proves you can’t trust the Tories with the NHS.”