Chris Lofts, Lib Dem candidate for South Northamptonshire, has been campaigning with supporters, listening to people in Brackley, Kings Sutton and Middleton Cheney. One of their main concerns is about the crises in NHS and social care funding.
Chris Lofts said: “People are very worried about delays to treatment and longer waiting times for operations. In the growing community of Middleton Cheney, the GP’s surgery closed last October, forcing those who are ill to travel to Banbury.
In Banbury, the Horton Hospital provides services to the Brackley area. Services, including maternity care, are under threat. Our former Conservative MP, has offered warm words of support, but she has always voted with the Tories to starve the NHS of adequate funding.
As I said at a public meeting in Brackley earlier this year, we can’t go on like this, starving the NHS of the money it needs to give families the care they deserve. Liberal Democrats would put a penny on income tax and ring-fence this money for the NHS and social care.”
Chris Lofts adds: “The Lib Dem plan is clear, credible, and supported by doctors and health professionals. Liberal Democrats say South Northamptonshire needs action to save our NHS and social care, not just warm words of sympathy from the Conservatives.”