Luciana Berger MP, Labour’s Shadow Public Health Minister,  responding to Liam Fox calling for an end to the ring fencing that protects NHS spending said:

“The NHS is starting 2014 with a crisis in England’s A&E departments. It’s a crisis of this Government’s making and yet today a senior Tory thinks the answer is to cut the NHS’s budget.

"David Cameron already broke his promise to protect NHS spending in his first year in Downing Street, wasted billions on a reorganisation that set back patient care, and has overseen a crisis in A&E. Today’s intervention just reminds people why you cannot trust the Tories with the NHS.”