Hugo Swire, who sabotaged Seaton Hospital, uses new perch in Lords to promote community hospitals
Swire obviously thinks we have forgotten. He is the man who, having been MP for Seaton until boundaries changed in 2005, spoke in Parliament in 2016 to say that if beds were kept anywhere, it should be in Sidmouth – leading the CCG to switch Seaton’s beds, which they had originally planned to keep, to our neighbouring town. A key moment in the Seaton Hospital crisis, whose effects we are still dealing with today.