UK's Johnson, Corbyn bicker over US trade and Vertex deal
As another UK election beckons, prime minister Boris Johnson and opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn engaged in yet another dustup about the state of the National Health Service (NHS) in the last round of Prime Minister’s Questions presided by legendary outgoing speaker John Bercow.
Corbyn accused Johnson and his government of conducting ‘secret meetings’ with US pharmaceutical executives as part of a post-Brexit trade deal, citing reports including Channel 4 dispatches that reported on Tuesday that the price the NHS pays for US medicines could soar under a future trade deal.
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