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You had 15 years of the Tories deliberately trying to run the NHS into the ground so they could announce it doesn't work and then create a US-style for-profit healthcare system that their cronies could profit from
Is exactly what they were pushing to justify this
Certainly the Tories did far more harm to the NHS than Labour would've if they had been in charge for the same period. However, if we consider how, under Tony Blair, did plenty to hasten the privatisation of the NHS in the 00s, this is, to some degree, a "bipartisan" issue. (Thatcher did say that New Labour was her greatest achievement)
I think that as long as neoliberalism is the backdrop of economic truth that politicians are working on, we're going to see this kind of erosion of the public good, like the NHS.