Jacob Rees-Mogg has said the current NHS model has failed and needs to be replaced with a service which isn’t solely funded through taxation.
Speaking on GB News, Jacob Rees-Mogg said: “The Conservative Party proved one thing in the last 14 years it is that pouring money into the NHS simply does not work. Cash goes in but productivity stagnates or even falls.
“The NHS, the sixth largest employer in the world, has become the ultimate money guzzler with its annual budget now approaching £200 billion.
“Whenever the Conservatives are in office, Labour complains that the NHS is being starved of funds. That, according to them, explains its problems.
“Yet even in the era of austerity under Cameron and Osborne, the NHS was protected, and subsequently it has been flooded with your taxpayer cash.
“In the final parliament of Conservative rule, funding increased massively. Since 2018 roughly an extra £1 billion per week has been injected in the health system, notably more than the infamous suggestion of £350 million a week on the Brexit bus.”