“Today, we must be vigilant, we must be vocal, we must demand that the NHS will always remain an institution for the people and by the people. We must never ever let the NHS free from our grasp because if we do your future will be my past. I am not a politician, a member of the elite or a financial guru, but my life is your history - and we should keep it that way. So say it loud and say it clear in this hall and across this country: Tories keep your mitts off our NHS.”
Harry Leslie Smith Labour Party Conference Manchester 2014.
In this episode Harry Leslie Smith meets you in the snug of a pub to talk to you about his Britain before the NHS and how his sister died in a workhouse infirmary because his family were too poor to afford healthcare.
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