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Tories spending a growing fortune of precious taxpayers’ money on private ambulances is the Government putting our NHS up for sale.

Every penny of profit from the £92million given to firms which, in some cases, aren’t up to the job should have been invested in care.

Sending commercial ambulances to 999 calls or increasingly using taxis to take patients to and from hospital is sneaky privatisation.

It comes as no surprise after Boris Johnson’s Downing Street hitman, Dominic Cummings, admitted many Tory MPs don’t value the NHS.

We demand a publicly owned and operated ambulance service is restored to guarantee high standards which, when sirens are blaring, might be the difference between life and death.

And we won’t be fooled by Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s empty talk about holding back privatisation. The facts say otherwise.

Tin-pot Boris

Politically illegitimate as a PM who entered No10 by the back door, Boris Johnson is an enemy of democracy.

And packing Parliament with unelected Tory crony Brexit peers, while sidelining elected MPs of all parties, would be the ­authoritarian arrogance of tin-pot dictator.

Pub bore Tim Martin is a wealthy sycophant who grumbled about paying his staff the minimum wage.

He then failed to name a single law initiated by the European Union that he would scrap, despite maintaining it was vital Britain left.

He should stand for election if he wants to be in Westminster, instead of being parachuted in to join the ranks of the unelected.

We believe in the sovereignty of Parliament.

But for Johnson that phrase is nothing more than a cheap slogan he ditched with the truth.

Born again Ben

National darling and England cricket hero Ben Stokes’s love for his family and their adoration of him are both touching.

After his brush with the law, the way Stokes has rebuilt his life and career is a reminder why everyone deserves a sporting second chance.