Former Tory Cabinet Ministers force Government to accept amendment demanding NHS protected from US trade dealThe Government has declared it is happy to sign up to a cross-party move to exclude the NHS from the terms of TTIP, the EU-US trade deal currently being negotiated. More than 25 Conservative MPs, including former cabinet ministers Peter Lilley, Iain Duncan Smith and Liam Fox, threw their support behind the Labour backbench amendment, warning that the NHS would be put at risk by TTIP. The amendment says MPs “respectfully regret that a Bill to protect the National Health Service from the Transatlantic Trade …read more
Source: Open Europe
