NHS waiting lists have hit another record high as Rishi Sunak fails to keep another of his promises to voters.
Official figures revealed that 7.7 million cases are now waiting for NHS treatment in England, up from 7.6 million a month ago.
The prime minister made bringing down waiting lists one of his five pledges to voters in January.
Another of the promises was to grow the economy, but data released yesterday showed that the UK’s GDP shrank by 0.5% in July.
Sunak is also struggling to keep his other promises to halve inflation, bring down the national debt and stop asylum seekers crossing the Channel in small boats.
In 389,952 cases, the patients were waiting more than a year for treatment and in 7,289 cases they were waiting more than 18 months.
Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said: “For millions of patients across England, the NHS is no longer there for them when they need it.
“On the NHS, Rishi Sunak is Inaction Man, refusing to meet with doctors to end NHS strikes and adding to the Conservatives’ NHS backlog, leaving patients waiting for months on end in pain and agony.”
