Labour Pledges to Halve NHS Backlog in Five Years in UK Vote Bid

The UK’s main opposition Labour Party said it would almost halve the current backlog of people waiting for treatment in the National Health Service during its first term in office, a latest promise to try to win over voters that also draws attention to a missed pledge made by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

Labour would spend £1.3 billion ($1.7 billion) on a package of measures including doubling the number of scanners used to diagnose patients and making available an extra 40,000 appointments to tackle the issue, the party said in an e-mailed statement on Tuesday. The package would be ...