Facing opposition claims that it will ‘sell off the NHS to the Americans’ after Brexit, the Conservatives have been eager to reassure us. Quizzed on the threat to the NHS of a US-UK trade deal, and on Labour’s publication of leaked notes of the trade talks so far, former health secretary Jeremy Hunt told the ‘Today’ programme earlier this week:
“I think the NHS was mentioned four times in those documents and every time it was in the context of UK officials saying this is not acceptable, we won’t talk about this kind of thing, and President Trump has confirmed this himself.”
And yes, Donald Trump said this week: “We want nothing to do with [the NHS], we wouldn’t take it if it were handed to us on a silver platter.”
