Labour has made some unpopular decisions in Government, a senior minister has acknowledged, but insisted the Government’s agenda was starting to bear fruit.
Pat McFadden, a senior Cabinet Office minister, speaking ahead of the local elections on Thursday, told Sky News’s Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips: “We had some tough stuff to sort out after the election last year and I accept that some of those decisions have not been the most popular, but we are starting to see things turn around now.”
Labour is currently trailing behind Reform UK in opinion polls ahead of the coming poll.
McFadden pointed to a fall in NHS waiting lists for “six months in a row”, adding: “So, we’re starting to turn things around, but it will take some time to feel the benefit of these things, and at year end we know we’ve got more to do, because people want to see delivery. They want to see a Labour Government turn around the NHS.”
In an attack on both the Tories and Reform, he added: “We will do that and it’s a big contrast to what we inherited with the NHS, or, indeed, another force on the right that doesn’t believe in the NHS at all.”