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No sooner has the new Tory leader been in place than in appointing Thersse Coffey MP and ex-DWP Minister as the new Health & Social Care Secretary, that alarm bells have been ringing in the NHS and amongst anti-NHS privatiation campaigners. As The Week news website put it: 'The new health secretary’s record on abortion rights is “deeply concerning”, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service has warned. Suffolk Coastal MP Thérèse Coffey, who was appointed to the post by Liz Truss yesterday, has previously voted to revoke access to at-home abortion care and against extending abortion rights to women in Northern Ireland.' As someone in charge of the DWP, Coffey reigned over 20,000 suicides amongst the disabled community in the UK because of her attacks on welfare benefits and by making benefit claimants go through impossible hoops to get benefits and created an impunative system aimed at denying support for the disabled. Now under Truss, she will be spear-heading even further cuts to disability support. Both are close friends and both believe in reducing the welfare state, cutting taxes, and aligning the UK with US labour de-regulation. But Coffey is the least of our worries according to The Gaurdian Newspapaper in an article which examines the new Tory Government key players: "In the spirit of not underestimating Liz Truss, then, let’s take a look at her team: her chief of staff is Mark Fullbrook, interviewed by the FBI about work he did for a Venezuelan-Italian banker accused of bribing the governor of Puerto Rico. (In the interests of fairness, we should spell out that he was spoken to as a potential witness, not a suspect.) A Lynton Crosby acolyte and very longtime Conservative campaigner, Fullbrook is known to have nice manners because that is a thing in Downing Street now. If you don’t scream at people the whole time, you’re the one-eyed man in the land of the blind. There are two policy guys called James Harries and Jamie Hope, both so young that it’s considered impolite to ask where they came from as the answer would be “school”. Special adviser Sophie Jarvis is ex-Adam Smith Institute, director of strategy Iain Carter worked with Crosby and Fullbrook, another spad, Jason Stein, worked for Prince Andrew, and the chief economic adviser, Matthew Sinclair, used to run the TaxPayers’ Alliance pressure group. Vote Leave, the rightwing gossip site Guido Fawkes and the Centre for Policy Studies supply the rest of the background to this vividly zealous, ideologically homogeneous set, whose mantra is: shrink the state." Source: The Week / The Guardian
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