Jeremy Corbyn’s NHS dossier is part of ‘normal trade talks’, insider reveals
JEREMY Corbyn's NHS dossier reveals nothing more than routine trade talks between the UK and the US, insiders said today.
Government sources told The Sun that the 400 pages of information the leftie boss claimed proved Boris Johnson was about to sell off the NHS were part of "completely normal" trade discussions.
And the talks can't even start in earnest yet because Britain hasn't even left the EU.
Earlier today Mr Corbyn was widely mocked after a press conference stunt when he revealed hundreds of pages of information from the Department for International Trade.
He claimed they showed proof the NHS was on the table in trade talks, and was at risk of being sold off to the US.
Boris Johnson today gave a "cast iron guarantee" that the health service won't be on the table in any agreement.
But insiders fear the huge data leak "risks our national security" and would even damage a future trade deal with the US.
Speaking to The Sun earlier, one said: "This is extremely damaging. Why should the US or any other of our allies trust us again?
"These hypothetical talks are completely normal, and are part of wider discussions about the health care sector, as the civil service conducts with all other sectors of the economy.
"Jeremy Corbyn has clearly used this partisan leak of highly sensitive information key to our national interest to deflect from his disastrous general election campaign, no one should fall for it."
They blasted his claim that the Government has been using the NHS as a bargaining chip in talks as "a lie".
'Corbyn's NHS lies will damage special relationship'
JEREMY Corbyn today claimed he has smoking gun proving the government has been using the NHS as a bargaining chip in Free Trade Agreement negotiations with Donald Trump.
The only trouble is almost all of this statement is a lie.
The so-called leaked documents from DIT which the Labour leader has passed onto journalists risks our national security and damage our country in any future trade negotiations.
I don’t even believe Mr Corbyn or his team have read them. If they had they would discover there is almost no mention of the NHS, and that no trade negotiations have even taken place for the simple reason we haven’t left the EU yet.
These leaks clearly came from anti-American and pro-Labour civil servants who are attempting to confuse the public into believing Jeremy Corbyn’s false accusation that the NHS will be sold to Trump in a future trade deal. Trump isn’t even part of these preliminary discussions, let alone the NHS.
Only very junior people work on such large documents. The Minister would never spend time reading that - they simply do not have the time. These papers have been completely misinterpreted by the press.
This is extremely damaging. Why should the US or any other of our allies trust us again?
Given the left-wing anti-American civil servants who work on the UK-US working group, I am not surprised these documents got out just before a general election.
These hypothetical talks are completely normal, and are part of wider discussions about the health care sector, as the civil service conducts with all other sectors of the economy.
Jeremy Corbyn has clearly used this partisan leak of highly sensitive information key to our national interest to deflect from his disastrous general election campaign, no one should fall for it.
From an anonymous government insider
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