Sir Keir Starmer has pledged Labour would make the NHS "fit for the future" with new targets for ambulance response times, cancer diagnosis and cutting deaths from cardiovascular disease.Delivering a speech on Monday, he echoed Nye Bevan, the Labour minister who helped found the health service, in describing illness as "neither an indulgence" to be paid for, "nor an offence" to be penalised.

Sir Keir Starmer has pledged Labour would make the NHS "fit for the future" with new targets for ambulance response times, cancer diagnosis and cutting deaths from cardiovascular disease.Delivering a speech on Monday, he echoed Nye Bevan, the Labour minister who helped found the health service, in describing illness as "neither an indulgence" to be paid for, "nor an offence" to be penalised.