UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has accused Prime Minister Theresa May of being “too weak” to sack underperforming members of her cabinet, after she reshuffled the lineup of her ministers in an attempt to reunify them ahead of a series of crucial foreign policy events this year.
Corbyn and May traded barbs in a raucous debate on healthcare Wednesday, during the first Prime Minister’s Questions of 2018 in the House of Commons.
Heavily criticizing May’s lacking policies in addressing the issues plaguing the severely under-budgeted National Health Service (NHS), Corbyn said May lacked the courage to fire her health secretary Jeremy Hunt.
“We know the Prime Minister recognizes there’s a crisis in our NHS because she wanted to sack the Health Secretary last week but was too weak to do it,”
May defended her decision to keep Hunt, who has been at the helm of NHS since 2012, saying “record funding” was being put in the NHS under his…