Lord Owen, the former Social Democratic Party leader who is spearheading opposition to the reforms, claimed that doctors and voters thought that the Prime Minister understood the health service after they were made “aware of his late son’s illness”.
The peer alleged that people may therefore feel let down by the Prime Minister’s plans to reorganise the NHS.
Mr Cameron has repeatedly referred to how Ivan’s treatment in NHS hospitals influenced his belief in the importance of the health service, one of the only departments protected from cuts.
Senior Conservative sources said it was a “low tactic” for Mr Cameron’s son, Ivan, who died in 2009 following a lifelong illness, to be highlighted by political opponents.
A Downing Street source said it was “rather tasteless”.
via David Cameron’s late son Ivan dragged into NHS debate – Telegraph.
