Labour Minister Jess Phillips has said she received “quicker” NHS treatment because she voted in favour of an immediate ceasefire in Gaza after a Palestinian doctor recognised her. The Telegraph has more.
Ms. Phillips, the Minister for Safeguarding and Violence against Women and Girls, has reportedly suggested her stance on the conflict had helped speed up her care when a Palestinian doctor treated her during a visit to an A&E department at a Birmingham hospital.
The MP for Birmingham Yardley quit her shadow ministerial role in November last year when Labour was in opposition to vote in favour of an immediate ceasefire. …
According to the Daily Mail, Ms. Phillips recounted how her vote had seemingly played a role in her health treatment during an event billed as An Evening with Jess Phillips, held at Kiln Theatre in north London.
Ms. Phillips reportedly said she had gone to A&E because she was having trouble breathing and that the department was very busy and chaotic.
“I have genuinely seen better facilities, health facilities, in war zones, in developing countries around the world,” she said.
Describing the situation when she got to the front of the queue, she said: “I got through because of who I am. Also, the doctor who saw me was Palestinian, as it turns out. Almost all the doctors in Birmingham seemed to be.”
She said: “He was sort of like, ‘I like you. You voted for a ceasefire’. [Because of that] I got through quicker.”
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Jess Phillips must explain her two-tier NHS Gaza claim, says Brendan O’Neil in the Spectator.
Stop Press 2: In Spiked, Fraser Myers has written about Labour’s embrace of two-tier healthcare.
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