The shadow health secretary has said a Labour Government would go further than the Conservatives in its plans for investment into Watford General Hospital.

Jonathan Ashworth was in town this week with Watford parliamentary candidate Chris Ostrowski to meet with staff over Labour’s plans for investment and rebuild of the hospital.

It comes after Boris Johnson visited Watford General in October where he said he “fully backs” plans for a £400 million investment into West Hertfordshire Hospitals.

And Mr Ashworth said he was pleased the Prime Minister “listened to Mr Ostrowski’s campaign since he has spoken for extra invest for Watford General”.

He continued: “We will honour that and make sure this hospital gets that money and this hospital is rebuilt.

“But we will go further. We will invest more in the digital IT infrastructure in this hospital since they are worried about it. This hospital needs more investment in digital infrastructure and a Labour Government will deliver it.

“But we will recruit more nurses and more midwives and GPs for the Watford area as well.

"Nationwide there will be 50,000 more nurses with Labour and that will mean more nurses trained here in Watford."

Mr Ashworth said this would be possible under a Labour Government since the party would bring back the training bursary.

He added: “This will mean people in Watford who want to train to be a nurse or a midwife are given the support to go to University and get that training so there will be more in our NHS.”

Mr Ashworth also said the party would put an extra £40 billion in cash into the NHS to bring down waiting list times.

He added: “The waiting lists are there worse on record and you would have seen a few weeks ago that we had the worse A&E waiting times ever. That’s happening under Tories.

“We will provide this investment so we don’t have to have elderly people from Watford languishing on trollies for hours and hours. I want to put more money into the NHS to deliver the quality of care people in Watford deserve.”