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Red-faced PM accepts motion of regret over TTIP
Birmingham’s striking bin workers and supporters bring waste sites to a standstill
THE government made history yesterday as the first to accept a motion of “regret” to its own Queen’s Speech in a humiliating climbdown over TTIP.
David Cameron reluctantly accepted a cross-party amendment to his programme for government which called for the exemption of the NHS from the EU-US trade deal.
The Prime Minister stubbornly insists the NHS is not at risk from the investor-state dispute settlement that would allow companies to sue the government for lost profits if services are not privatised.
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