LABOUR will put the spotlight back on the NHS today after exposing the Tory Party’s secret plans to sack 2,000 nurses.

Plans to make drastic staffing cuts as soon as the election is over are contained in official papers revealed by Labour at the weekend.

Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said that they showed “the NHS simply cannot take five more years of David Cameron.”

He will drive home the message today by revealing a new analysis of Tory health policies and a poster highlighting how they could spell the end for the NHS as a public service.

Both are part of Labour’s NHS Week, which is set to be launched by Mr Burnham at a south London community centre this morning.

Details of NHS staff cuts are contained in Health Education England’s Workforce Plan for England 2015/16.

They include reductions of 748 full-time-equivalent adult nursing posts, including 131 in disability learning nursing and 1,552 in mental health nursing.

But Mr Cameron refused to come clean over the NHS spending cuts in a bad-tempered appearance on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday.

The Tory PM insisted that a majority was “within reach” for his party.

But his words were laughed off by Lib Dem Business Secretary Vince Cable and Labour said the “desperate” claim showed that the Tory campaign was “faltering.”

Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls added: “He had no answer on NHS funding, refused to rule out a coalition with Ukip and said foodbank use was soaring because of better advertising.”