EVER since Boris Johnson became Prime Minister we have been saying that you can’t trust him — and every week developments are proving Labour right.

We have also warned that Johnson wants to sign up to a US trade deal with Trump which would force the NHS to buy pricier drugs from US pharmaceutical companies and put our NHS finances at risk. Now a Dispatches documentary has confirmed it.

Sadly, whilst we we tabled a motion to protect our NHS from a Trump sell-off recently in Parliament, the Lib Dems refused to back it, showing their true colours.

Despite the Tories’ denials, it is absolutely clear that the NHS is up for grabs by US corporations.

These Dispatches revelations that trade officials had secret face-to-face discussions with US pharmaceutical giants to make the NHS pay more for US medicines are just one example that shows you can’t believe a word Boris Johnson says on the NHS.

Whilst Johnson had famously promised £350 million a week for the NHS, it has now been revealed that his toxic Brexit trade deal with Trump could hand over £500 million a week of NHS money to big drugs corporations.

It’s not just on the NHS you can’t trust Boris Johnson — across the board, you can’t trust a word he says.

This week saw the coming and going of October 31 — the day Boris Johnson promised we would leave the EU. He said he would rather be “dead in a ditch” than delay beyond that date. But he has failed to meet his own promise — and this is the fault of the Tories, including Boris Johnson, and their three long years of Brexit division and failure.

In an accompanying development, it was also revealed last week that the Conservative Party manifesto is being written by a corporate lobbyist for Facebook, Amazon and Cuadrilla.

As my colleague Jon Trickett put it, “If ever we needed another reminder that the Tory Party represents the privileged few, this is it and it’s an outrage to democracy that the frackers, the tax dodgers and the zero-hour exploiters will have the biggest say when it comes to Tory policy.”

The Tories truly are the party of the few. But under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, Labour are the party of the many.

Outlining this vision for real change, this week Corbyn and Labour launched the most ambitious and radical election campaign our country has ever seen to bring real change and a society that works for everybody and not just the billionaires.
The choice could not be clearer — and it couldn’t be more important for our future.

We can’t go on like this.

The Tories’ ideologically driven austerity has meant we have had a decade of Tory cuts and economic failure. Real wages have fallen and our public services have been starved of vital resources.

In contrast to this, Labour will invest in every nation and region, rebuild our public services and give our NHS, schools and police the money they need. We will do this by taxing those at the top to properly fund services for everyone.

And as Corbyn said this week, “this election is our last chance to tackle the climate emergency with a Green Industrial Revolution at the heart of Labour’s plan to transform Britain.”

Whilst Johnson’s parliamentary party is full of people who have been climate change deniers, we have an agenda for a green new deal as part of investing in the future of people and planet.

And on Brexit, Labour will give people a final say to bring a divided country together, while the Tories and the Lib Dems only seek to divide us further.

With such high stakes in this election, all progressives and all the labour movement need to be clear that the Tories and their allies will fight harder and dirtier than ever before to stop real change.

We can also expect them to keep on resorting to the politics of scapegoating and division.

But we will take them on. We have hundreds of thousands of people in every part of our country who will make this the biggest people-powered campaign in history.

And as Corbyn said this week, “when Labour wins, the nurse wins, the pensioner wins, the student wins, the office worker wins, the engineer wins. We all win.”

Please then join us in this historic general election campaign, for the many not the few.

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