Rebecca Long-Bailey forced to defend working on NHS PFI deals

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Rebecca Long-Bailey was forced to defend working on PFI deals within the NHS. Before becoming an MP, Ms Long-Bailey worked on a team which reportedly drew up deals that saw £190m worth of NHS property handed to investment companies based in Luxembourg.

Asked how this fit in with her claim to have always wanted to “defend the NHS”, she said that when she was a corporate lawyer, she had to work on PFI contracts because they were “the only game in town.” She told the BBC’s Andrew Neil: “In terms of those PFI contracts, if you were granting a lease to a GP, a pharmacy or any other local community organisation, any new hospital was comprised of a PFI deal. “So all of the leases out of that for 30 years, Andrew, were subject to those PFI terms -