This shocking NHS bill is without sense or mandate | Polly Toynbee | Comment is free | The Guardian
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Westminster Bridge, joining parliament and St Thomas’s hospital, will be blocked on Sunday at one o’clock by a UK Uncut sit-down protest against the NHS bill that reaches the House of Lords next week.
The Lords have the last chance to amend the health and social care bill’s most egregious clauses. Despite its gigantic size, basic questions remain unanswered. The Tory MP and GP Sarah Wollaston once called it “a hand grenade thrown into the NHS” – and so it is proving. The Lords should be alarmed by the constitutional enormity of this largely unscrutinised bill for which there was no manifesto mandate.