Sadly, we already know that B Johnson is a confirmed liar.
Fullfact.org has been checking his 'promises' and has found some interesting things:
He's talked about increasing the number of nurses. But even if another 50,000 nurses were hired tomorrow, it would only bring the number of nurses per 1,000 to the highest level it has been since at least 2010. So nine years ago we had at least 50,000 more nurses. Who's been in charge since then?
He added that: “40 new hospitals will be built”.
Six hospitals in England have been given the money to
upgrade their buildings within the next five years. The rest are being given a total of £100 million in “seed funding” to
develop plans for their hospitals between 2025 and 2030, but no money for any actual building work. The current plan is for works on these hospitals to take place between 2025 and 2030.
So when will any new hospitals be built?
He lies all the time. He claimed "The money going into the NHS as you know, it's the biggest increase in living memory, a £34 billion increase.”
Once you adjust for inflation (which is the most meaningful way to look at spending increases) the “£34 billion” is a spending increase of £20.5 billion between 2018/19 and 2023/24. But the last time spending increased by at least that amount over five years was between 2004/05 and 2009/10.
So I think we know what to expect. It's just a massive shame that Labour couldn't see what many of its own MPs could and what most Labour supporters could: Corbyn was a huge liability.