Jeremy Corbyn ‘deeply suspicious’ of Boris Johnson’s NHS plans

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Jeremy Corbyn continued to put the NHS at the heart of his UK election campaign as he declared he was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;deeply suspicious” of Boris Johnson’s plans for the health service&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The British Labour leader visited Swindon on Saturday and said he was concerned how the Conservative Party’s relationship with the US could affect Britain’s public services&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The party has said it will defend the NHS against a possible &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;sell out” to US corporations in a Donald Trump trade deal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking at Commonweal Sixth Form College&comma; Mr Corbyn brushed off recent criticism from the US president&comma; saying&colon;<em> &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’m much more concerned about the relationship of the Tory party with the US government and the US on our public services&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;And the deals they’ve been apparently prepared to do with US pharmaceutical companies for our NHS&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I want our NHS to be ours&comma; publicly owned and publicly run&period; And that’s exactly what will happen with a Labour government&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump has ruled out the NHS being part of negotiations for a post-Brexit trade deal&comma; a key allegation in Labour’s campaign&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But Mr Corbyn said&colon; <em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;When Trump and the US ambassador and others have said repeatedly that any trade deal with Britain would require their access to the British healthcare market&comma; as they call it&comma; I’m deeply&comma; deeply suspicious&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His comments came after the Prime Minister failed to rule out expanding private provisioning in the NHS in future&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In an interview with BBC News on Friday&comma; Mr Johnson was asked whether he would rule out further use of the private sector in the health service&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He did not directly answer the question&comma; instead replying&colon; <em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;What I will tell you&comma; well of course there are dentists and optometrists and so on who are providers to the NHS&comma; of course&comma; that’s how it works&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But we are&comma; we believe&comma; I believe passionately in an NHS free at the point of use for everybody in this country&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Johnson also said he was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;absolutely determined” to increase taxpayer funding of the health service and accused Labour of trying to divert the campaign narrative away from Brexit&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68cd1b956d264">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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