William Hague joins NHS anti-cuts rally – the weekend after elections

Foreign Secretary William Hague joined a protest against NHS cuts in his North Yorkshire constituency – despite publicly backing the coalition’s NHS reforms in Parliament.

Just one day after Boris Johnson’s re-election as Mayor of London and the Tories’ drubbing at the local elections – and while the rest of the country was preoccupied — Hague was addressing a 5,000-strong rally against the closure of the maternity unit at Friarage Hospital.

Bill Fizz reassured the protesters:

“I share the deep concern that many residents have over the proposed changes at the Friarage.”

But in his role as Cabinet Minister, Hague said that making £4.5bn of “administrative savings” by 2015 would allow the NHS to “run more efficiently”.

Even Hague doesn’t seem to know where he stands on the NHS.