Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Nov 2019
Corbyn accuses Tories of planning deal to hike drug prices with Trump as election looms
5 November 2019 - Drug prices have become an issue in the UK’s general election, after Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn accused the Conservatives of planning a shady deal with Donald Trump that would see the NHS pay US prices for medicines at a cost of £500 million a week.
Corbyn’s claim in a heavily trailed pre-election speech was immediately dismissed as “fantasy” by Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove.
As tension mounts ahead of next month’s poll Corbyn has claimed that Boris Johnson’s proposed post-Brexit free trade deal with the US could mean that the NHS would have to pay these higher US prices to appease Trump.
