Theresa May suggests UK health services could be part of US trade deal

[Jose Garcia]

Source: The Independent

Theresa May has left the door open for the greater involvement of US corporations in British healthcare as she arrives in America to lay the groundwork for a future trade deal.

Ms May would only say that she was committed to a health service that is free at the point of delivery, but made no comment on whether the NHS would be off the table in any future talks.

Trade and the UK’s economic relationship with the US will be one of the key pillars of the Prime Minister’s visit to Philadelphia and Washington DC.

Asked whether health services might form a part of a potential deal, she said: “We're at the start of the process of talking about a trade deal. We're both very clear that we want a trade deal.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-donald-trump-nhs-us-trade-deal-brexit-torture-a7548156.html

[aquamarina]

1. That's not going to go down well with the Crown's subjects.

[still_one]

2. The U.K. brexit may just be their undoing, as trump is ours

[marybourg]

3. Read the whole article. Didn't see her

"suggest" anything of the kind. False Headlines, the progenitor of False News

[TubbersUK]

4. The Tories are friggin' shameless