More than 1,300 local chemists have appealed to pharmacist’s son Rishi Sunak to save them from closure. A letter to the Chancellor, whose mother was a pharmacist, pleads with him to urgently look again at pharmacy funding.
Meanwhile, a Tory former Health Minister accused “Treasury bean counters” of refusing to give pharmacies the help they need.
It comes after the Mirror revealed thousands of family-run chemists could be forced to close their doors after years of chronic underfunding - with as many as three-quarters under threat over the next four years.
The letter reads: “As the son of a pharmacist, we are quite sure that you won’t wish to preside over the irreversible decline of community pharmacy, which has done so much over the last
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