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CAMPAIGNERS have slammed the government’s “sickening” decision to block protections for the NHS from the Trade Bill, which passed through the Commons on Monday night.
Last-ditch attempts by the Green Party and Labour to rule the NHS out of a future trade deal with the US were thwarted when MPs voted down a key amendment by 340 votes to 251.
The proposal would have banned any deal seeking to undermine the status of the NHS as a public-funded service, free at the point of delivery, and would have protected it “from any form of control from outside the UK.”
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
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
