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| TTIP: Jeremy Corbyn and rebel Tory MPs to form alliance to protect NHS from transatlantic trade deal | |
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| Jeremy Corbyn is backing a plan to protect the NHS from the controversial TTIP trade deal with the US, the Independent understands. | |
| The Labour leader is to support an amendment to the Queen's Speech, which will be voted on next week, in which Labour MPs will state they “regret” the Government has not included a bill that would “protect the National Health Service from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership”. | The Labour leader is to support an amendment to the Queen's Speech, which will be voted on next week, in which Labour MPs will state they “regret” the Government has not included a bill that would “protect the National Health Service from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership”. |
| It is thought Labour will forge an unholy alliance with dozens of Tory Eurosceptic MPs that would inflict an embarrassing defeat on David Cameron just weeks before the EU referendum. | It is thought Labour will forge an unholy alliance with dozens of Tory Eurosceptic MPs that would inflict an embarrassing defeat on David Cameron just weeks before the EU referendum. |
| the Government would be defeated on a Queen’s Speech vote for the first time in nearly 100 years | the Government would be defeated on a Queen’s Speech vote for the first time in nearly 100 years |
| More than 25 Tory MPs are understood to have already signed up to the plan. | More than 25 Tory MPs are understood to have already signed up to the plan. |
| The last time a Government lost a Queen’s speech vote was in 1924. | The last time a Government lost a Queen’s speech vote was in 1924. |
| The move by Tory Europsceptics to openly side with Mr Corbyn to defeat on the Government will further inflame tensions in the Tory party. | The move by Tory Europsceptics to openly side with Mr Corbyn to defeat on the Government will further inflame tensions in the Tory party. |
| It will infuriate Downing Street who attempted to use the unveiling of the Queen’s Speech yesterday to set a fresh agenda for the party after the June 23 poll. | It will infuriate Downing Street who attempted to use the unveiling of the Queen’s Speech yesterday to set a fresh agenda for the party after the June 23 poll. |
| But it will also anger some moderate pro-European Labour MPs who will see it as further evidence of Mr Corbyn’s ambivalence towards Britain’s membership of the European Union. | But it will also anger some moderate pro-European Labour MPs who will see it as further evidence of Mr Corbyn’s ambivalence towards Britain’s membership of the European Union. |
| A Labour Party Spokesman however pointed out that it was natural to support the amendment as it was in the party’s manifesto at the last election. | A Labour Party Spokesman however pointed out that it was natural to support the amendment as it was in the party’s manifesto at the last election. |
| That said: “We support the principles behind the negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Treaty (TTIP). | That said: “We support the principles behind the negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Treaty (TTIP). |
| “We will hold the European Commission to account on issues of concern, including the impact on public services and the Investor to State Dispute Settlement Mechanism. And we will ensure the NHS is protected from the TTIP treaty.” | “We will hold the European Commission to account on issues of concern, including the impact on public services and the Investor to State Dispute Settlement Mechanism. And we will ensure the NHS is protected from the TTIP treaty.” |