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A NEW clause in the Trade Bill supposedly protecting the NHS was dismissed as worthless today by campaigners, who urged MPs to prevent a “power grab” by corporations.
The Commons held a crucial vote on the amendment, which would supposedly safeguard the health service in future trade deals, after the Morning Star went to press.
A more comprehensive amendment to protect the NHS had been tabled in the House of Lords but was withdrawn by Labour’s Baroness Thornton after the government pledged to make compromise proposals.
Burnham urged to create publicly-provided national care service before the end of the parliament, and to keep his promise to ditch neoliberalism
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the horrific price British patients will pay for this NHS deal is now clear — and there’s time to get out of it, if MPs will only force the issue