A LABOUR government would circumvent any risk to patients’ treatment after Brexit by seeking to remain part of the European Medicines Agency.

Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth will announce the plan in Brussels today as part Labour’s push to build links with EU figures.

“Labour will not sign off on a Brexit deal that turns the clock back on medical innovation or sees patients in the UK having to wait longer to get access to life-changing treatments,” Mr Ashworth will say. “It is a red line for me and it is red line for the Labour Party.”