From overcrowded hospitals and prisons to crumbling school buildings, Britain’s public services are broken. Voters cite the state of the NHS and healthcare, in particular, as their second biggest concern after the cost of living. For any incoming government, fixing services will involve some of the trickiest trade-offs. Yet neither main party is being open about the scale of the task, and how much it is likely to cost.
The pandemic took a toll, especially on the NHS. But it hit services already weakened by a decade of Conservative-imposed austerity. Most have not regained pre-pandemic performance levels, says the Institute for Government — but nearly all were already performing worse in 2019 than in 2010.
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