Over the last couple of years I have repeatedly sounded the alarm about long ambulance wait times, after hearing horror stories from constituents. I have repeatedly raised these problems with health service management in Bristol and with the Health Secretary. And I have been raising the issue of workforce shortages in the NHS and social care since I became an MP in 2015.

But years of ignoring these signs has led to a crisis which is now causing hundreds of deaths a week.

People are waiting hours for ambulances, emergency departments are overrun and thousands are spending days in hospital corridors waiting for urgent treatment.

So where is the Health Secretary? Where is the plan to fix this? According to the Prime Minister’s spokesperson, this is all completely normal.

This cannot go on.

After years of failing to meet basic standards for patients, the Government is now looking to water down or scrap standards altogether. The answer is cutting waiting times, not cutting standards for patients.

The next Labour government will agree a plan with the NHS to bring down waiting times to safe and acceptable levels, and begin working towards them straight away. At the heart of that plan will be our pledge to train a new generation of doctors and nurses, paid for by abolishing the non-dom tax status.