Douglas Carswell has hit back at claims he wants to part-privatise the NHS, saying he has been misquoted by his critics.
The Ukip election hope candidate Clacton by-election – who prompted the contest by quitting as the Tory incumbent in August – was speaking at a televised hustings on Monday night.
Tim Young, the Labour candidate, said Mr Carswell had written in a book in favour of introducing GP charges and “making [patients] haggle for appointments.” Ukip election hope
Mr Carswell insisted that his book was only discussing how money was allocated within the NHS and not about people using their private money. But One question ask over why he had prompted a £250,000 by-election instead of waiting until next May's general election was met with loud clapping.
Mr Carswell clashed with his rivals over jobs, apprenticeships and housing and also accepted a local plan for 4,000 new homes but - unlike Tory candidate Giles Watling - opposed a new and more ambitious strategy for 12,000 homes.
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