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U.S. President Donald Trump leaves after attending an evening reception for Nato leaders hosted by Prime Minister Boris Johnson at 10 Downing Street London, yesterday
LABOUR accused Donald Trump ytoday of having a “passing relationship with reality and the truth,” after the US president made an unconvincing U-turn on the NHS.
Speaking at a rally in Birmingham, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said “all the evidence” points to the health service being on the table in trade talks with Washington.
He challenged bizarre comments made by Mr Trump on Tuesday, when he insisted that his country wouldn’t want the NHS “even if it was served on a silver platter.”
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
As the dollar falters and US power turns predatory, Britain and Europe must abandon transatlantic illusions and build a collectivist alternative before the system implodes, writes ALAN SIMPSON
