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Dave unrepentant amid unholy NHS showdown

IT may have been Ash Wednesday but there was no hint of repentance as David Cameron dinged and Ed Miliband donged on the sacred cow that is the NHS.

There is a rule of thumb in politics that he who shouts the loudest has the weaker argument.

So, for the most part yesterday Red Ed was trying to stay cool, calm and collected while Flashman Dave was banging the dispatch box and getting purple-faced.