The British Conservatives favor national health insurance.
They largely continue to pay lipservice to the National Health Service, but the trend has been to
underfund and gradually privatize it, prominent Tories like
Dominic Raab are on record as favouring privatization, and as of December last year, at least a dozen prominent Tory politicians, including Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Dominic Cummings, had
financial links to private healthcare concerns. This list has some overlaps with the 70 or so MPs
found to have such links in 2015.
The NHS has long been considered the third rail of British politics, but Brexit and its aftermath have allowed the prospect of radical changes that would be unthinkable in normal times. You might think that the COVID crisis would have focused minds on the worth of the NHS, but nurses lost out on a recent "thankyou" pay rise awarded to the police, and there's been a free-for-all of unscrutinized contracts handed out to dodgy firms far too cosy with prominent Tories, a number of which have failed to deliver anything at all. Anyone who still believes the mantra that the NHS is safe in Tory hands has a shuddering wake-up call coming.
The British Conservative party passed a National Living Wage.
Only workers over 25 are eligible for the "Living Wage", which is only some 50 pence an hour more than the statutory minimum wage in the UK. This "Living Wage"
is less than it is calculated workers actually need in order to be able to afford to live. This doesn't take into consideration those on zero-hour contracts and in other insecure forms of employment, who may not be able to work enough hours to support themselves and their families. It also hasn't stopped the payment of slave wages to workers in the garment industry, for instance, as scrutiny has been incredibly (some might say deliberately) lax.
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