Nathaniel Dye: Terminal cancer patient forced to wait 100 days for treatment opens for Starmer at manifesto launch [Video]

A man who believes his terminal cancer may not have spread without NHS treatment delays described Labour as “the party of hope for a brighter future I won’t live to see”, as he introduced Sir Keir Starmer’s general election manifesto launch.

Nathaniel Dye, a 38-year-old music teacher, spoke emotionally to the audience at Manchester’s Co-op headquarters as he described himself as representing “the human cost of an NHS neglected over the past 14 years”.

And he praised the policies put forward by shadow health secretary Wes Streeting in Labour’s manifesto “as a real tangible plan to give people the treatment they need before it’s too late”.

“When I was first diagnosed in October 2022 it looked like I might be able to survive the bowel cancer that had …