Q. It is three minutes past 12. If somebody phones 999 now because they have chest pains and fear it might be a heart attack, when would the Prime Minister expect an ambulance to arrive?
A. Cross your fingers
Q. for a person suffering chest pains, the clock starts ticking straightaway—every minute counts. That is why the Government say an ambulance should be there in 18 minutes..... I will ask him again. When will that ambulance arrive?
A. Cross your fingers
Q. If they were in Northampton it would be 20 minutes, Plymouth 40 minutes. That is not the worst-case scenario; it is just the average ..will he stop blaming others, take some responsibility & just admit that the NHS is in crisis, isn’t it?
Those words taken from a chat between a poet and a comedian
And now to quote from the below
Its closing warning
" Many, many times since it all happened I have pondered that pair of great maxims, Principiis obsta and Finem respice—‘Resist the beginnings’ and ‘Consider the end.’ "
First of all you have to go back to PMQs to realise
That Sunak was flummoxed by several of the questions being about failings in the criminal justice system that his party have overseen for the past 13 years
"it was opposed by the Conservative Government and the Labour Official Opposition but, late in the evening of 28th July 1981, after 13 failed attempts by backbenchers in both Houses, a House of Lords amendment by Lord Nugent of Guildford, succeeded in the Commons. "
"In the first interview, May gave explicit replies to only 14% of Marr’s questions. This contrasts with my previous analyses of 33 broadcast interviews with other British political leaders, where I found an average reply rate of 46%"