POLL OF THE DAY: Do you think the NHS is broken? - HAVE YOUR SAY

Jeremy Clarkson caused a stir over the weekend when he conceded that he thought he risked "going to prison" by saying he believes the NHS would be better off in private hands.

The TV presenter wrote in The Times he could not help but share his glee at both Conservatives and Labour being forced to "come face to face with reality."

He wrote: "The National Health Service would work better if it was privatised. Because everything does.

“One of the advantages about being old is that I can remember the 1970s. So I know for a fact that nationalised industries do not work."

The day after Labour's landslide General Election victory last year, then-new Health Secretary Wes Streeting said: "When we said during the election campaign that the NHS was going through the biggest crisis in its history, we meant it.

"When we said that patients are being failed on a daily basis, it wasn’t political rhetoric, but the daily reality faced by millions."

Speaking at the Labour Party conference earlier this year, Streeting took aim at Nigel Farage and Reform UK's policy, accusing the party of wanting to move the system to a privatised system.

Streeting said: "[Farage] says we need to change the funding model, move to an insurance-style system, and charge patients to use the health service.

"Conference, over my dead body. We will always defend the NHS as a public service, free at the point of use, so that when you fall ill, you never have to worry about the bill."