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Then Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (centre) poses with NHS staff holding unredacted copies of the Department for International Trade's UK-US Trade and Investment Working Group readout following a speech about the NHS in November 2019
JEREMY CORBYN warned that the NHS is being laid bare for US healthcare privateers as of the Trade Bill returned to the Commons today.
The Islington North MP and former Labour leader noted that there is nothing in the Bill that would stop the NHS from being left vulnerable to further privatisation in any future British-US trade deals.
He said: “There’s nothing in it to stop the vultures in the US private healthcare industry getting their hands on our NHS.”
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