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BESTSELLING cook Delia Smith added her voice yesterday to those calling for a Labour vote to save the NHS.
The health service would be “in grave danger” if the Conservatives manage to hang on to power after Thursday’s general election, Ms Smith warned.
The Con-Dem coalition pushed through Andrew Lansley’s Health and Social Care Act in 2012, allowing the private sector to snap up key parts of the NHS.
Labour’s promise to repeal the hated Act has attracted wide support, including from high-profile campaigners such as Harry Leslie Smith, whose sister Marion died of tuberculosis before the NHS was introduced because she could not afford treatment.
Ms Smith recalled a similar family history, noting that her grandmother had lost her 18-month-old baby to pneumonia because the cost of treatment was out of reach.
“This is probably the most crucial election of all because — and I’m not using my words lightly — we are in grave danger of losing this precious thing, the National Health Service,” she said.
