LONDON — Donald Trump said he would not want the British health service included in a trade deal between the U.K. and the U.S. even if it were handed over “on a silver platter.”
His comments serve as a boost to U.K. Prime Minster Boris Johnson, who has spent days fighting off claims by opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn that Trump wants U.S. firms to win private contracts in the National Health Service and push up drug prices.
Corbyn revealed leaked documents from the U.K. Department for International Trade last week that showed U.S. negotiators had raised drug patents in preliminary trade talks with their U.K. counterparts.
But during a visit to London for the NATO summit, the U.S. president said his country did not want involvement in U.K. health. “If you handed it to us on a silver platter, we wouldnt want it,” he said. “We want nothing to do with it.”
Ahead of the visit, officials worried any intervention in the campaign by the U.S. president could be unhelpful for Johnson, givenRead More – Source
