Opposition leader vows to revive Britain's ailing health service

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BOURNEMOUTH, England (AFP) — Conservative leader David Cameron will pledge to revive Britain's ailing state health system if he became prime minister, using his own experience with his disabled son to emphasize the point. The main opposition chief, whose son Ivan suffers from cerebral palsy and severe epilepsy, was due to stress his commitment to the National Health Service Wednesday by saying his family relied on it.

Cameron was to say he would make preserving the publicly funded, free-care-for-all NHS his top priority, apeing a promise by Prime Minister Tony Blair to focus on education when his Labour Party ousted the Tories in 1997. "Tony Blair explained his priorities in three words: education, education, education. I can do it in three letters: NHS," Cameron was to tell...