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Last PMQs before election strikes NHS road bump
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn have clashed over the health service in what is likely to be the last Prime Minister’s Questions before the December election.
In what commentators are saying is a timely reminder that Brexit won't be the only issue that decides the election, it was the NHS that was somewhat surprisingly the focus of the exchanges, with particular focus given by Corbyn to Johnson’s alleged plan to ‘sell out’ the health service in order to get a trade deal with US President Donald Trump.
Citing a documentary from Channel 4's Dispatches, which reported that the price the NHS pays for US medicines has been discussed in six meetings between trade officials from both countries, Corbyn vocally questioned why the Prime Minister said the health service wasn't on the table in any post-Brexit trade deal?
The Labour leader also raised the issue of NHS shortages and waiting times.
Johnson’s response was to point to a ‘stupendous’ amount of money that the government has put into the health service and highlight that the number of doctors and nurses on wards had risen since 2010.
Jeremy Corbyn said: "This election is a once-in-a-generation chance to end privatisation in our NHS, give it the funding it needs and give it the doctors, the nurses, the GPs and all the other staff that it needs."
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