Tory MPs last night voted down a legal bid to protect the NHS in a future trade deal with the US. Labour put forward an amendment to the Trade Bill which would have barred any deal which "undermines or restricts" a comprehensive public-funded health service, free at the point of delivery.
The amendment would have banned any deal that undermined the ability "to maintain the quality and safety of health or care services".
It would also have legally guaranteed the UK's ability to control the pricing of medicines, and maintained the current level of protection for patient data.
But Tory MPs voted the amendment down - along with a separate Labour bid to keep "chlorine-washed" chicken and other poor-quality US foods out of the UK.
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