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The News Quiz - 2nd June

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Steve Barkley's Interview With the New York Times

Most of these 40 hospitals, which have been promised as new, are actually refurbs or new blocks within a hospital. Most of them have not even started being built anyway. Even if it's just they literally repair the roof to stop it falling down, that is a new hospital, is it? I mean, judging by what he was saying, that sounded like that could be new. He kept being asked in that interview, will you be straight with me before he answered the question. And he should have just said no. Then it opens up everything. We're going to be building 100. Just go off there. No one's going to die in a hospital ever. Happy endings

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