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Full story in new Private Eye, out now.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Private Eye Magazine (@PrivateEyeNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PrivateEyeNews\/status\/1194581809142603776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tories insist the NHS is not for sale &#8211; which must disappoint Conservative co-chair Ben Elliot, whose firm Hawthorn Advisers lobbies for foreign-owned private health firms, including one which took 25% of the UK&#8217;s adult social care market. Full story in new Private Eye, out now. \u2014 Private Eye Magazine (@PrivateEyeNews) November 13, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-Dts","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133277,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2018\/12\/13\/ken-livingstone-on-austerity-and-other-matters\/","url_meta":{"origin":151742,"position":0},"title":"Ken Livingstone on Austerity and other matters","author":"diana Stone","date":"December 13, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The Tories are breaking Britain OVER the last five years more than 500,000 workers in Britain have fallen into working poverty, it was revealed this week in the UK Poverty 2018 report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. 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