Michael Gove pledges an extra £100million a week to NHS if he becomes Prime Minister
Justice Secretary says he wants to "change this country for the better"
MICHAEL Gove has pledged to put £100million a week more into the NHS if he becomes the Prime Minister.
To cheers at the launch of his bid for the Tory leadership contest he said he wants to “change this country for the better”.
He said: “Of course our most important public service will always be the NHS.
";And I want to say something clear and unambiguous about the future of the health service.
"Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic.
"They do an amazing job.
“But we need to face the fact that we need more money in order to deliver Jeremy Hunt's absolutely correct drive to guarantee even better standards of care.
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"I will put my heart and soul into making sure that the care your son or daughter or mum or dad receives is the same I would want for my own family.
“Which is why I will take all the steps necessary to give the NHS at least another £100m, per week by 2020."
In a speech in central London he vowed to stand up for Britain and tackled the thorny issue of his decision to stand, which prompted former London mayor Boris Johnson to stand aside.
In the wake of Mr Cameron’s resignation, he said he knew we” needed a leader who both believed in this new path and who could build and lead a united team to guide us through the challenges ahead”.
He went on: “I believed that Boris Johnson, who had campaigned alongside me with such energy and enthusiasm, could build and lead that team.
“I wanted that plan to work. I worked night and day for it.
"But I came to realise this week that, for all Boris’s formidable talents, he was not the right person for the task.
“That realisation meant that I once more faced a difficult decision.
“Could I recommend to friends, colleagues and the country a course in which I no longer believed?
“I could not. I had to stand up for my convictions. I had to stand up for a different course for this country.
“I had to stand for the leadership of this party.”
Michael Gove's key policy pledges
- Spend an extra £100million a week on the NHS
- To fulfil the will of the British people by leaving the European Union, ending the supremacy of EU law and take back control of our democracy
- To take back control of our borders by ending free movement and introduce an Australian style points –based system for immigration to bring the number of immigrants coming to this country down
- To build a more dynamic economy and a society that is fundamentally more fair
- To give shareholders more control over how public companies operate
- To reform the education system and improve Britain’s position in science and innovation
- To build hundreds of thousands of new homes a year
- To make sure every child gets a first-class education
- To make the tax structure simpler and fairer
- To continue his reforms of the prison system
- To get more talented people into public service, including working in prisons and probation, health and social care, providing social housing and running local government
- To be a Prime Minister with a burning desire for change
- To make Britain the most civilised, humane, and progressive country on earth