Worse. Parents searching in vainforan nhs worse. Parents searching in vain for an Nhs Dentist for their kids. And cancer patients waiting months or even years to start treatment. The Conservative Party left office with almost 6. 5 million people languishing on hospital Waiting Lists. that is one in every nine people in england. A single astonishing statistic that encapsulates an appalling legacy of failure from the last conservative government. And a disaster for our society and our economy. Just imagine. Just imagine how much better it thinks would be now if those 6. 5 million people had already had the operational treatment they need and been able to get on with their lives. Just imagine how many people would now be back at work, earning a decent living and boosting our economy. Just imagine how much pain, Stress And Anxiety families would have been saved from, and how much more free they would feel as a result. That is, after all, why the nhs is so important to us as liberals and wh
Of the ancient games. The gentleman speaking at the moment, the president of the Olympic Committee in greece, he is also a member of the International Committee. You can see the ancient remains of the 2600 year old temple, where this is taking place. What will happen is the flame will be lit and then it will be handed over to the paris 2024 olympic team. The relay will stretch from the acropolis to the south pacific. As you can see, there are hundreds of people at the ceremony and it is the First Time Since the covid 19 pandemic when of course there were toned down events for the tokyo olympics, that spectators are able to attend the Torch Relay Events and this flame Lighting Ceremony. We are expecting that flame to be lit in the next ten to 15 minutes. We will come back to that as we see it. We will have full coverage of that line from olympia as the flame is lit to head towards the paris 2024 olympics, which, of course, start injuly of this year. We start this hour with the latest de