To Robert Lighthizer, US Trade Representative
Hands off our NHS
We understand that the UK and US governments are currently negotiating a new trade deal.
We want you to know the British public won’t stand by and accept a UK-US trade deal that includes our National Health Service. A deal that increases the access US companies have to run NHS services, or means the NHS has to pay more for life-saving medicines, will face unprecedented opposition and backlash from the public.
If the UK government hasn’t been clear on this, then we will be. The NHS is the British public’s red line: it’s not up for negotiation.
Signed,
Thousands of members of the British public
We want you to know the British public won’t stand by and accept a UK-US trade deal that includes our National Health Service. A deal that increases the access US companies have to run NHS services, or means the NHS has to pay more for life-saving medicines, will face unprecedented opposition and backlash from the public.
If the UK government hasn’t been clear on this, then we will be. The NHS is the British public’s red line: it’s not up for negotiation.
Signed,
Thousands of members of the British public