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‘It seems pretty f*****g clear to me,’ Culverhouse said, the veins starting to appear across his forehead. ‘You’d expect the senior consultants to be the ones who’d want the hospital to stay standing, so imagine the sway he’d have by speaking out in favour of knocking it down.’
‘But it doesn’t quite make sense,’ Wendy said. ‘Why would he? Like you said, you’d imagine that he’d be completely against the plans. He’d stand out like a sore thumb if he went against that stereotype.’
Culverhouse stood with his hands on his hips, trying to stop himself getting any angrier. ‘He’s a clever man, Knight. He knows that all he needs to do is admit to some of the benefits of merging care services, the cash-strapped NHS, all that bollocks. Or even just put forward arguments in favour of keeping the
