Red Ken Goes Private

Ken Leninspart, the Labour candidate to be Mayor of London and opponent of NHS privatisation, has been outed by City A.M. as a user of private health services.

A spokesman for Leninspart tried to spin the revelation of hypocrisy away, by claiming that Leninspart only uses an “external provider” for annual check-ups.

That won't wash, private check-ups generally cost anything from several hundred pounds to several thousand; and for a man who claims to be anti privatisation it is rank hypocrisy to use an "external provider".