Andrew Lansley was adamant in Parliament that he has "no connection with private healthcare companies," but, like Liam Fox, he might well be indulging in a little creative fictionalisation of the truth. In November, it turns out, he received a trifling £21,000 to fund his private office by John Nash, the chairman of Care UK - one of the private healthcare providers that will benefit most from the Tory "reforms" of the NHS. As healthcare lobbyists talk about the "denationalisation" of the NHS and see it as an "abohrrence" and an affront to business interests, the Tories have trousered £200,000 in "donations" from Care UK who have already beneffited from a £53 million contract to provide healthcare to HM's Prisons. We asked the Minister for his comments; "Look, this is normal practice in most corrupt administrations and shouldn't be taken too seriously. What's a couple of hundred grand between friends? As for me saying I have no interests in private healthcare that is technically correct - I only have an interest in the money they can bribe us with. You have to look at the NHS as an untapped asset - untapped by the Tory party that is. We'll be taking an organisation that, at the moment, is a vipers nest of Labour voters and turning it into a river of money straight into Tory party coffers. Where's the harm in that?"
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