Why did Sunak change tack on private healthcare?

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🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Rishi Sunak has finally answered questions over his healthcare arrangements with a statement in Prime Minister's Questions, stating that he is currently registered with an NHS GP but has used private healthcare in the past. Is this change in tack an admission that he should have answered the question sooner? Katy Balls talks to Isabel Hardman.

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by Canacore Genuity Wealth Management.
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0:15.8	Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots
0:17.3	to Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast.
0:19.4	I'm Katie Bors, I'm joined by Isabel Hardman from Parliament
0:23.1	where we have just witnessed the first Prime Minister's questions of 2023.
0:29.3	Isabel, are you blown away?
0:31.2	Yeah, Katie, you really built that up and I'm afraid that it was somewhat
0:35.1	anticlimactic for anyone who's expecting it to be exciting.
0:38.3	No, Keir Starman and Rishi Sunak both to one
0:42.2	extent, for another make of virtue, are to be quite boring.
0:44.8	And that's probably what the British public wants given the cycle drama
0:48.8	of the past few years within the Tory party in particular.
0:52.4	It did run along the lines that most of us had expected,
0:56.0	which was Sunak's private health care strikes in the NHS
1:01.1	and the general state of the NHS.
1:03.2	And Sunak decided to use the first question of the session to say
1:07.8	that he has had treatment from the independent sector,
1:11.6	something he was refusing to engage with at the weekend,
1:15.1	saying it was a private matter, I mean, as we've said,
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