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Let's put that to Peter Carl. Peter, a very good morning to you.

You too, Mike. Thanks very much. It is lovely out here.

It is nice, isn't it? Lovely weekend.

Now, Dave in Bristol obviously got very much of a bee in his bonnet about Labour Party.

He's particularly worried about the Labour Party reducing our freedom of choice. What's message can you give him

to reassure him that's not going to happen? Well, Mike, it's good to hear from you, but let me just

put it this way. There are currently 8 million people who are waiting for treatment on the NHS.

Where's the choice in that? Right now we have an economy with no growth in it. So there are two

and a half million people

who are just not in the economy anymore. They can't find work in our economy. Where is the choice

in that? What we want to do is tackle the challenges in our public services and yes, choice

will be an important part of it. In the last Labour government, we introduced choice so that you

could choose the hospital and the areas where you had the treatment

that you needed.

West Streeting, our shadow health secretary, has already said that people will have more

choice and yes, we will use the private sector in tackling those challenges as well.

So people will have more choice, not less, because what we want is a welfare state that is

fit for the 21st century, for the 2020s facing forward, not it's stuck

in the past as we've had with the Conservative Party. So I think you'll find with fully functional

public services and an economy with growth in it so we can start getting money back into

people's pockets again and investing in our public services. You know, these are the things that

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