Julia Langdon’s fulsome tribute to an outstanding Labour Health Secretary who in the late 1990s “was credited with achieving a new stability for the future of the NHS . . . on the backbenches,[using] his political authority for judiciious criticism of Blair over the Iraq war, detention without charge for suspected terrorism offences, student top-up fees and foundation hospitals.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/12/frank-dobson-former-labour-health-secretary-dies
