Reacting to the Liberal Democrat conference to remove support for the NHS Bill from the ‘Shirley Williams’ motion, Martin Tod, who spoke against the Bill, said:

Whatever the leadership of the Liberal Democrats decide, the core issue remains: despite all the improvements made, they can’t even sell the bill to their own members, let alone the professions and the wider public.

The Government should drop the bill, go back to the coalition agreement and work with health professionals to come back with a bill that deserves support.