THE health service will be promised a £1.5 billion cash boost in the Autumn Statement to deal with winter pressures in 2015/16, Nick Clegg has signalled.
The extra funding has been a prominent Lib Dem demand.
But the Deputy Prime Minister said he did ‘not anticipate a great political stand-off’ over its inclusion in Chancellor Osborne’s Tuesday package.
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