Labour accuses Boris of plot to ‘sell’ NHS to Trump

London, November 27

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Britain’s main opposition Labour party on Wednesday accused Prime Minister Boris Johnson of plotting a “toxic” deal with Donald Trump to allow US pharmaceutical companies access to the state health service.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn held up what he said were 451 pages of previously secret documents that proved Johnson was seeking to put the National Health Service (NHS) on the table in a post-Brexit trade deal.

Britain goes to the polls on December 12, with Johnson hoping to secure a majority to be able to push through his divorce deal to take the country out of the European Union. The funding and running of the NHS is a recurring election topic.

Corbyn had previously obtained a redacted version of the document, which Johnson said was “an absolute invention”. But the Labour leader said the unredacted version catalogued six meetings between US and UK officials since 2017, detailing “what they (the Conservatives) don’t want you to know”. “The US is demanding that our NHS is on the table in negotiations for a toxic deal,” he told reporters in central London. — AFP