Lord Owen tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy that Andrew Lansley is effectively privatising the NHS...

...and that is why he wants his fellow peers to amend the bill so that the Secretary of State and Parliament retains overall responsibility for the health service.

[Lord Owen is a crossbench peer but we've posted his video here given his past leadership of the SDP].

Comments

[Stuart Smith]

I lived in Rhodesia when he was the foreign sec to the U.K. I also recall the presidet / King / boss of Jordan saying as an aside , is he any good as a doctor? that sums up his career!
All mouth and no trousers, doing one job, and the Jordanians asking if he was any good at another?
So anything he says is taken with a pinch of salt, and dis-belief.