Morgan attacks Tory MRSA 'piffle'

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First Minister Rhodri Morgan has accused Conservative leader Michael Howard of scaring patients with "unscientific piffle" over MRSA. Mr Morgan also said Mr Howard was "hiding behind" the death of his mother-in-law from the hospital infection when challenged about it. The first minister made the attack in an interview with website ePolitix.com. Conservative Welsh assembly member Alun Cairns called the comments "outrageous" and "underhand". During the interview, Mr Morgan labelled the Tory campaign for cleaner hospitals "absurd", saying it was "all about simply telling lies to to the British people about MRSA levels". "It is pure scaremongering without a shred of scientific evidence behind it," he added.