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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn holds a redacted copy of the Department for International Trade's UK-US Trade and Investment Working Group readout as he delivers a speech about the NHS, in Westminster, London
LABOUR today exposed secret trade talks between the US and the Tories — now at an “advanced stage” — that would pave the way for the NHS to be opened up to US pharmaceutical firms.
At a press conference today Jeremy Corbyn held up 451 pages of uncensored documents from US-British trade talks which show the NHS is up for grabs in a post-Brexit deal under a Conservative government.
The Labour leader said that evidence of six rounds of negotiations starting in July 2017 leaves PM Boris Johnson’s claims that the NHS would not be part of any trade talks “in absolute tatters.”
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the horrific price British patients will pay for this NHS deal is now clear — and there’s time to get out of it, if MPs will only force the issue
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS