It is fascinating to watch how Theresa May's commitment to spend more on the NHS has gone wrong already. Firstly, she has failed to outbid Labour which is pledging more. Secondly she has thrown away the advantage that the Tories have always had over Labour that Labour was always under greater pressure to show to pay for things because the voters did not trust Labour. Thirdly, unlike Blair and Brown in 2002, she has decoupled the extra spend from the taxation needed to pay for it.
That is shown in Gaby Hinsliff's Guardian column, which grudgingly refers to the extra spend, as if it were a mere by product and Philip Hammond was simply itching to raise taxes.
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