Labour will take 40 years to meet the NHS waiting list target at the rate it has been treating patients, a damning new analysis suggests.
It means Britons face decades more misery, with painfully long waits for routine care, such as hip and knee replacements.
The Government has vowed to treat 92 per cent of patients within 18 weeks of receiving a GP referral by March 2029.
That would require the waiting list to fall from 7.27million now to around 3.5million, a rate of 114,000 a month.
But official NHS England figures show it managed to cut the waiting list by an average of
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