The NHS was a huge issue in #GE2019, at times and in certain parts of the UK a bigger issue even than Brexit, and it should have represented an open goal for Labour, the party of the NHS. Yet, for me, the central campaign message of #NHSNotForSale just didn’t connect with voters.
For instance, I spoke to a bloke in his 70s, an ex-factory worker who’d voted Tory since Thatcher but he’d been following the election and reckoned that Corbyn was ‘talking a lot of sense’. But he asked me to explain if the NHS is really up for sale as he didn’t get the argument