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Jeering Tories backed David Cameron in the Commons today as the PM replied to claims of an NHS 'winter crisis' with a poltical jibe.

The Prime Minister taunted Jeremy Corbyn and claimed the real winter crisis was in the Labour party as his MPs egged him on at PMQs.

Speaker John Bercow had to tell off the Tories for drowning out Mr Corbyn during the exchange - saying their rowdy politics was not what the public wanted to hear.

Mr Corbyn quoted a stark warning by Dr Clifford Mann of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine just hours after junior doctors rubbished a contract offer from Jeremy Hunt.

"This winter will be worse than last winter and last winter was the worst winter we’ve ever had in the NHS", the expert said.

But the PM seized on the phrase to attack Mr Corbyn's controversial string of new advisors including Andrew Fisher, who urged people to vote against Labour candidates on Twitter, and Seumas Milne.

"It is the Labour party that’s heading for a winter crisis", the PM retorted.

"Look at his appointments. His media advisor is a Stalinist, his new policy advisor is a Trotskyist and his economic advisor is a Communist.

"If he’s trying to move the Labour party to the left I’d give him full Marx."

The PM added the Tories can fund an NHS - whereas ‘the countries he admires all over the world with their crazy socialist plans’ can’t.

He had earlier insisted the NHS had all the resources it needed, saying: "It is benefiting from £10 billion we put in, money the Labour Party at the last election said they did not support.

"I believe the NHS has the resources that it needs and that's why we are seeing it treating more patients, with more treatments, more drugs being delivered, more tests being carried out.

"It's a much stronger NHS and the reason is simple because we have a strong economy supporting our strong NHS."

Mr Cameron also said: "What we have done is appoint a new chief executive to the NHS, Simon Stevens, who worked under the last Labour government and did a very good job for them.

"He produced the Stevens Plan which he said required £8 billion of Government funding and we are putting in £10 billion behind that plan.

"The results you can see is we have 1.3 million more operations, 7.8 million more outpatient appointments, 4.7 million more diagnostic tests.

"What is going up in the NHS is the number of treatments and the number of successful outcomes."

But after his cheap insult Mr Corbyn retorted: "The issue I’d raised with the Prime Minister was the National Health Service, in case he’d forgotten.

"There are now 3.5 million people waiting for treatment... Will he just get real? The NHS is in a problem."

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