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Hundreds of people have turned out for a Labour NHS rally at Leeds Beckett University this evening (November 30).

Footage before the event, which kicked-off at 7pm, shows queues of people snaking through the city centre despite the freezing conditions.

A speech from Jeremy Corbyn was the main attraction, but attendees also heard from the likes of Angela Rayner, Deanne Ferguson, and Labour candidates for Leeds East and Pudsey Richard Burgon and Jane Aitchinson.

Around 9.30pm, the Labour leader was greeted with chants of 'oh Jeremy Corbyn' as he took to the stage to outline his party's plans for the NHS.

Eyewitnesses estimated there were around 1,000 supporters in attendance.

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To mark the event, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth revealed Labour research showing almost 1.5m patients have been delayed in the back of ambulances in the past three years.

And last year 503,887 people were delayed more than 30 minutes when guidance states patients should be handed over to hospital staff within 15 minutes of arriving at hospital.

Earlier this month, Freedom of Information requests found that last year alone over £68 million was spent on private ambulances by ambulance trusts in England.

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Jonathan Ashworth said: “This is damning evidence of the crisis our NHS has been pushed into after a decade of cuts. Many of these patients will be elderly in desperate need yet they have been left waiting and waiting.

“It’s a disgrace and comes after cuts to 17,000 hospital beds under the Tories.

“You can’t trust Boris Johnson with our NHS but you can trust Labour to deliver the standards of care patients deserve with our £40 billion cash rescue plan.”

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