The Guardian view on NHS funding: no platform for Boris Johnson | Editorial

The foreign secretary may be grandstanding, but there is a need for more money, invested in making healthcare sustainableThe foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, has been parading in the headlines for a week now, mostly on matters that are no part of his departmental brief. In the 24 hours before today’s cabinet meeting, he and his allies were briefing that he would demand an extra £5bn a year for the NHS. It did not go to plan: slapped down by the prime minister, afterwards it was sugg