Jeremy Hunt accuses Stephen Hawking of `pernicious falsehood` in NHS row
(World News Science)

Jeremy Hunt has accused Stephen Hawking of a `pernicious` lie after the physicist said it seemed the Tories were steering the UK towards a US-style health insurance system. Hours after the health secretary was criticised for claiming Hawking was wrong in the row about the government´s seven-day NHS plan, he leapt back into the fray with two tweets defending the Conservative party´s record on the health service. Hunt was responding to criticism from the renowned 75-year-old physicist and author of...