Health and Social Care Bill Debate
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Alex Cunningham
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Health and Social Care Bill
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Mr Lansley
I have to tell my hon. Friend that nothing much about the Opposition surprises me any more.
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North) (Lab)
Will the Secretary of State now accept that, contrary to the impression he is trying to create, the opposition to his muddled bill is not some plot by health workers or trade unions with vested interests, but is coming from many Liberal Democrats, the majority of the British public and almost the entire health community, to whom his Government promised to listen?
Mr Lansley
Opposition Members distort what is in the Bill and tell their constituents that it is something other than what it is, and then they come to the House and say, “Oh, it’s muddled.” It is not muddled at all; it is they who are muddled.