Jamie Reed MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Minister, responding to Jeremy Hunt’s comments in The Mail on Sunday, on cancer care and GPs, said:

“This is a desperate idea from a Government that won’t take responsibility for the problems it has created in the NHS.

“David Cameron wasted billions on a re-organisation nobody wanted and left cancer patients waiting longer for tests and treatment. He should be ashamed of his own record - not attacking doctors.

“This Government has thrown away progress made on cancer care. It is proof of why the Tories can’t be trusted with the NHS.”