US-UK Brexit Trade Deal Could Mean ‘Rat Hairs And Maggots’ In Food, Corbyn Warns

The Tories have repeatedly dismissed Corbyn’s claims about NHS ‘sell-offs’ as lies and are sure to hit back hard at the latest claims about food safety.

The Labour leader will say that Johnson is seeking a post-Brexit trade deal with the US that would mean “full market access” to the NHS for US producers, pushing up the cost of medicines.

The Conservatives have consistently denied the NHS would be “on the table” in trade talks with President Donald Trump’s administration.

But Corbyn will say it is clear Johnson is preparing to betray pledges which he made during the 2016 EU referendum campaign.

“What Boris Johnson’s Conservatives want is to hijack Brexit to unleash Thatcherism on steroids,” he will say.

“Johnson and the Leave campaign promised to rebuild our NHS. Johnson stood in front of a bus and promised £350 million a week for the NHS.

“Now we find out that £500 million a week could be taken out of the NHS and handed to big drugs companies under his plans for a sell-out trade deal with Donald Trump.”

The Labour leader will say the Conservatives want to strip away a whole raft of employment and environmental protections in a move to a more deregulated US-style economic model.

He will say the Conservatives want to take Britain out of the EU because they knew voters would never back a return to the politics of the 1980s.

“Margaret Thatcher’s attack on the working people of our country left scars that have never healed and communities that have never recovered,” he will say.

“The Conservatives know they can’t win support for what they’re planning to do in the name of Thatcherism. So they’re trying to do it under the banner of Brexit instead.”

Corbyn will reiterate Labour’s commitment to “sort” Brexit within six months if they gain power, giving voters the final say in a referendum.

“It won’t be a re-run of 2016. This time the choice will be between leaving with a sensible deal or remaining in the European Union,” he will say.

However, Johnson hit back with a challenge of his own, demanding that Corbyn “come clean” about his own Brexit plan.