In the end, the most important people in the maternity services are the mothers, babies, the families. But the point of having a maternity commissioner is to make sure that those issues are championed as part of an NHS.
On the role of a maternity commissioner in NHS.
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That’s what I believe we need to change, and that’s what we are looking at how to change, to expand the sanctions regime.
Of course it’s not easy. I really did not think it was possible to win the election when I came back into the shadow cabinet in 2022. It’s only because of what Keir did that we managed to win.
We cannot have employers getting round the rules or finding different ways to deviate.
I think Keir’s style of leadership was ‘bring me solutions, not problems’. And I’m not sure you can do that in politics.
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