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Mark Valladares

Welcome to my day: Monday 25 June – it’s not the despair, it’s the hope that gets you…

By Mark Valladares | Mon 25th June 2018 - 7:50 am

England win 6-1, a huge march against Brexit. Anyone would think that we might be entitled to good stuff for a change. We’ll see if anything comes of either event, but it is nice to have something that offers hope, rather than the despair that has been so wearing of late.

There’s been a lot of hope in the past week for supporters of the NHS, but the Conservative proposal of an extra £20 billion for health spending turned to dust pretty quickly when it became clear that there wasn’t much actual money, and that what there was would be coming …

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