Oh yes. There's a comment elsewhere talking about how the Blair-Brown years had heavy NHS investment and how they used PFIs to fudge the numbers, and that's exa

Oh yes. There's a comment elsewhere talking about how the Blair-Brown years had heavy NHS investment and how they used PFIs to fudge the numbers, and that's exactly how it worked - instead of paying the upfront cost of, say, a new hospital they got a private sector firm to build it and committed future governments to paying a bunch of expensive fees to that firm for decades. So they got lots of nice fancy NHS investments and improvements to point at whilst eating into the capacity of every future government to fund... well, everything really. It wasn't sustainable at all.