An amendment designed to protect the NHS from being subject to any form of control from outside the UK in a future post-Brexit Trade Deal has been voted down by 340 votes to 251 in parliament last night.
Green Party MP Caroline Lucas put forward the amendment with the support of Labour leader Keir Starmer and a number of other senior MPs.
She said: “We do not want yet more warm words and nice rhetoric, what we want are some red lines in the negotiations, and the way to get them is to write them onto the face of this Bill”.
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In addition to protecting the NHS from foreign control, the amendment also contained numerous other measures to protect the NHS, including:
- Ensuring the ability to provide a “comprehensive and publicly funded health service free at the point of delivery” was not compromised by any future trade deal
- Protecting hard-working NHS staff from having their wages or rights slashed by any future trade deal
- Protecting the quality and safety of health and care services
- Regulating the control and pricing of medicines
- Protecting patient data from being sold off
- Protecting the NHS from so-called investor-state dispute settlements (ISDS) – clauses which allow foreign investors to sue national governments for any measures which harm their profits.
Jeremy Corbyn
Documents obtained by former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn came under scrutiny last week, with Dominic Raab accusing Russia of having a hand in illicitly acquiring sensitive information on trade deals.
At the 2019 election, Corbyn said the documents proved the Conservatives were planning to include the NHS in a future trade agreement with the US – something denied by the government.
Writing on his Facebook page, Mr Corbyn accused the Conservatives of wanting “to distract from the damage a Trump trade deal would do to our NHS by continuing to push the bogus claim Labour received Russian support”.
He added that the government’s claim “is an attempt to divert attention from the threat to the NHS and the Tory party links to Russian oligarchs expected to be revealed in the long-buried parliamentary Russia report.”
MPs who voted down the amendment:
- Nigel Adams (Conservative – Selby and Ainsty)
- Adam Afriyie (Conservative – Windsor)
- Imran Ahmad Khan (Conservative – Wakefield)
- Nickie Aiken (Conservative – Cities of London and Westminster)
- Peter Aldous (Conservative – Waveney)
- Lucy Allan (Conservative – Telford)
- David Amess (Conservative – Southend West)
- Lee Anderson (Conservative – Ashfield)
- Stuart Anderson (Conservative – Wolverhampton South West)
- Caroline Ansell (Conservative – Eastbourne)
- Edward Argar (Conservative – Charnwood)
- Sarah Atherton (Conservative – Wrexham)
- Victoria Atkins (Conservative – Louth and Horncastle)
- Gareth Bacon (Conservative – Orpington)
- Richard Bacon (Conservative – South Norfolk)
- Kemi Badenoch (Conservative – Saffron Walden)
- Shaun Bailey (Conservative – West Bromwich West)
- Siobhan Baillie (Conservative – Stroud)
- Duncan Baker (Conservative – North Norfolk)
- Steve Baker (Conservative – Wycombe)
- Harriett Baldwin (Conservative – West Worcestershire)
- John Baron (Conservative – Basildon and Billericay)
- Simon Baynes (Conservative – Clwyd South)
- Aaron Bell (Conservative – Newcastle-under-Lyme)
- Scott Benton (Conservative – Blackpool South)
- Paul Beresford (Conservative – Mole Valley)
- Jake Berry (Conservative – Rossendale and Darwen)
- Saqib Bhatti (Conservative – Meriden)
- Bob Blackman (Conservative – Harrow East)
- Crispin Blunt (Conservative – Reigate)
- Peter Bone (Conservative – Wellingborough)
- Andrew Bowie (Conservative – West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine)
- Ben Bradley (Conservative – Mansfield)
- Karen Bradley (Conservative – Staffordshire Moorlands)
- Suella Braverman (Conservative – Fareham)
- Jack Brereton (Conservative – Stoke-on-Trent South)
- Andrew Bridgen (Conservative – North West Leicestershire)
- Steve Brine (Conservative – Winchester)
- Paul Bristow (Conservative – Peterborough)
- Sara Britcliffe (Conservative – Hyndburn)
- James Brokenshire (Conservative – Old Bexley and Sidcup)
- Anthony Browne (Conservative – South Cambridgeshire)
- Fiona Bruce (Conservative – Congleton)
- Felicity Buchan (Conservative – Kensington)
- Robert Buckland (Conservative – South Swindon)
- Alex Burghart (Conservative – Brentwood and Ongar)
- Conor Burns (Conservative – Bournemouth West)
- Rob Butler (Conservative – Aylesbury)
- Alun Cairns (Conservative – Vale of Glamorgan)
- Andy Carter (Conservative – Warrington South)
- James Cartlidge (Conservative – South Suffolk)
- William Cash (Conservative – Stone)
- Miriam Cates (Conservative – Penistone and Stocksbridge)
- Maria Caulfield (Conservative – Lewes)
- Alex Chalk (Conservative – Cheltenham)
- Rehman Chishti (Conservative – Gillingham and Rainham)
- Jo Churchill (Conservative – Bury St Edmunds)
- Greg Clark (Conservative – Tunbridge Wells)
- Simon Clarke (Conservative – Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)
- Theo Clarke (Conservative – Stafford)
- Brendan Clarke-Smith (Conservative – Bassetlaw)
- Chris Clarkson (Conservative – Heywood and Middleton)
- James Cleverly (Conservative – Braintree)
- Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Conservative – The Cotswolds)
- Thérèse Coffey (Conservative – Suffolk Coastal)
- Elliot Colburn (Conservative – Carshalton and Wallington)
- Damian Collins (Conservative – Folkestone and Hythe)
- Alberto Costa (Conservative – South Leicestershire)
- Robert Courts (Conservative – Witney)
- Claire Coutinho (Conservative – East Surrey)
- Geoffrey Cox (Conservative – Torridge and West Devon)
- Stephen Crabb (Conservative – Preseli Pembrokeshire)
- Virginia Crosbie (Conservative – Ynys Môn)
- Tracey Crouch (Conservative – Chatham and Aylesford)
- James Daly (Conservative – Bury North)
- David T C Davies (Conservative – Monmouth)
- James Davies (Conservative – Vale of Clwyd)
- Gareth Davies (Conservative – Grantham and Stamford)
- Mims Davies (Conservative – Mid Sussex)
- David Davis (Conservative – Haltemprice and Howden)
- Dehenna Davison (Conservative – Bishop Auckland)
- Caroline Dinenage (Conservative – Gosport)
- Sarah Dines (Conservative – Derbyshire Dales)
- Jonathan Djanogly (Conservative – Huntingdon)
- Leo Docherty (Conservative – Aldershot)
- Michelle Donelan (Conservative – Chippenham)
- Nadine Dorries (Conservative – Mid Bedfordshire)
- Steve Double (Conservative – St Austell and Newquay)
- Oliver Dowden (Conservative – Hertsmere)
- Jackie Doyle-Price (Conservative – Thurrock)
- Richard Drax (Conservative – South Dorset)
- Flick Drummond (Conservative – Meon Valley)
- James Duddridge (Conservative – Rochford and Southend East)
- David Duguid (Conservative – Banff and Buchan)
- Iain Duncan Smith (Conservative – Chingford and Woodford Green)
- Philip Dunne (Conservative – Ludlow)
- Mark Eastwood (Conservative – Dewsbury)
- Ruth Edwards (Conservative – Rushcliffe)
- Michael Ellis (Conservative – Northampton North)
- Tobias Ellwood (Conservative – Bournemouth East)
- George Eustice (Conservative – Camborne and Redruth)
- Luke Evans (Conservative – Bosworth)
- David Evennett (Conservative – Bexleyheath and Crayford)
- Ben Everitt (Conservative – Milton Keynes North)
- Michael Fabricant (Conservative – Lichfield)
- Laura Farris (Conservative – Newbury)
- Simon Fell (Conservative – Barrow and Furness)
- Katherine Fletcher (Conservative – South Ribble)
- Mark Fletcher (Conservative – Bolsover)
- Nick Fletcher (Conservative – Don Valley)
- Vicky Ford (Conservative – Chelmsford)
- Kevin Foster (Conservative – Torbay)
- Mark Francois (Conservative – Rayleigh and Wickford)
- Lucy Frazer (Conservative – South East Cambridgeshire)
- George Freeman (Conservative – Mid Norfolk)
- Mike Freer (Conservative – Finchley and Golders Green)
- Richard Fuller (Conservative – North East Bedfordshire)
- Marcus Fysh (Conservative – Yeovil)
- Roger Gale (Conservative – North Thanet)
- Mark Garnier (Conservative – Wyre Forest)
- Nusrat Ghani (Conservative – Wealden)
- Nick Gibb (Conservative – Bognor Regis and Littlehampton)
- Jo Gideon (Conservative – Stoke-on-Trent Central)
- Cheryl Gillan (Conservative – Chesham and Amersham)
- John Glen (Conservative – Salisbury)
- Robert Goodwill (Conservative – Scarborough and Whitby)
- Michael Gove (Conservative – Surrey Heath)
- Richard Graham (Conservative – Gloucester)
- Helen Grant (Conservative – Maidstone and The Weald)
- Chris Grayling (Conservative – Epsom and Ewell)
- Chris Green (Conservative – Bolton West)
- Damian Green (Conservative – Ashford)
- Andrew Griffith (Conservative – Arundel and South Downs)
- Kate Griffiths (Conservative – Burton)
- James Grundy (Conservative – Leigh)
- Jonathan Gullis (Conservative – Stoke-on-Trent North)
- Robert Halfon (Conservative – Harlow)
- Luke Hall (Conservative – Thornbury and Yate)
- Stephen Hammond (Conservative – Wimbledon)
- Matt Hancock (Conservative – West Suffolk)
- Greg Hands (Conservative – Chelsea and Fulham)
- Mark Harper (Conservative – Forest of Dean)
- Rebecca Harris (Conservative – Castle Point)
- Trudy Harrison (Conservative – Copeland)
- Sally-Ann Hart (Conservative – Hastings and Rye)
- Simon Hart (Conservative – Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire)
- John Hayes (Conservative – South Holland and The Deepings)
- Oliver Heald (Conservative – North East Hertfordshire)
- James Heappey (Conservative – Wells)
- Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative – Daventry)
- Gordon Henderson (Conservative – Sittingbourne and Sheppey)
- Darren Henry (Conservative – Broxtowe)
- Antony Higginbotham (Conservative – Burnley)
- Damian Hinds (Conservative – East Hampshire)
- Simon Hoare (Conservative – North Dorset)
- Richard Holden (Conservative – North West Durham)
- Kevin Hollinrake (Conservative – Thirsk and Malton)
- Philip Hollobone (Conservative – Kettering)
- Adam Holloway (Conservative – Gravesham)
- Paul Holmes (Conservative – Eastleigh)
- John Howell (Conservative – Henley)
- Paul Howell (Conservative – Sedgefield)
- Nigel Huddleston (Conservative – Mid Worcestershire)
- Neil Hudson (Conservative – Penrith and The Border)
- Jane Hunt (Conservative – Loughborough)
- Jeremy Hunt (Conservative – South West Surrey)
- Tom Hunt (Conservative – Ipswich)
- Alister Jack (Conservative – Dumfries and Galloway)
- Sajid Javid (Conservative – Bromsgrove)
- Ranil Jayawardena (Conservative – North East Hampshire)
- Bernard Jenkin (Conservative – Harwich and North Essex)
- Andrea Jenkyns (Conservative – Morley and Outwood)
- Robert Jenrick (Conservative – Newark)
- Boris Johnson (Conservative – Uxbridge and South Ruislip)
- Caroline Johnson (Conservative – Sleaford and North Hykeham)
- Gareth Johnson (Conservative – Dartford)
- David Johnston (Conservative – Wantage)
- Andrew Jones (Conservative – Harrogate and Knaresborough)
- Fay Jones (Conservative – Brecon and Radnorshire)
- David Jones (Conservative – Clwyd West)
- Marcus Jones (Conservative – Nuneaton)
- Simon Jupp (Conservative – East Devon)
- Daniel Kawczynski (Conservative – Shrewsbury and Atcham)
- Alicia Kearns (Conservative – Rutland and Melton)
- Gillian Keegan (Conservative – Chichester)
- Julian Knight (Conservative – Solihull)
- Greg Knight (Conservative – East Yorkshire)
- Danny Kruger (Conservative – Devizes)
- Kwasi Kwarteng (Conservative – Spelthorne)
- John Lamont (Conservative – Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk)
- Robert Largan (Conservative – High Peak)
- Pauline Latham (Conservative – Mid Derbyshire)
- Andrea Leadsom (Conservative – South Northamptonshire)
- Ian Levy (Conservative – Blyth Valley)
- Andrew Lewer (Conservative – Northampton South)
- Julian Lewis (Independent – New Forest East)
- Ian Liddell-Grainger (Conservative – Bridgwater and West Somerset)
- Chris Loder (Conservative – West Dorset)
- Mark Logan (Conservative – Bolton North East)
- Marco Longhi (Conservative – Dudley North)
- Julia Lopez (Conservative – Hornchurch and Upminster)
- Jack Lopresti (Conservative – Filton and Bradley Stoke)
- Jonathan Lord (Conservative – Woking)
- Tim Loughton (Conservative – East Worthing and Shoreham)
- Craig Mackinlay (Conservative – South Thanet)
- Cherilyn Mackrory (Conservative – Truro and Falmouth)
- Rachel Maclean (Conservative – Redditch)
- Alan Mak (Conservative – Havant)
- Kit Malthouse (Conservative – North West Hampshire)
- Anthony Mangnall (Conservative – Totnes)
- Scott Mann (Conservative – North Cornwall)
- Julie Marson (Conservative – Hertford and Stortford)
- Theresa May (Conservative – Maidenhead)
- Jerome Mayhew (Conservative – Broadland)
- Paul Maynard (Conservative – Blackpool North and Cleveleys)
- Karl McCartney (Conservative – Lincoln)
- Stephen McPartland (Conservative – Stevenage)
- Mark Menzies (Conservative – Fylde)
- Johnny Mercer (Conservative – Plymouth, Moor View)
- Huw Merriman (Conservative – Bexhill and Battle)
- Stephen Metcalfe (Conservative – South Basildon and East Thurrock)
- Robin Millar (Conservative – Aberconwy)
- Maria Miller (Conservative – Basingstoke)
- Amanda Milling (Conservative – Cannock Chase)
- Nigel Mills (Conservative – Amber Valley)
- Andrew Mitchell (Conservative – Sutton Coldfield)
- Gagan Mohindra (Conservative – South West Hertfordshire)
- Damien Moore (Conservative – Southport)
- Robbie Moore (Conservative – Keighley)
- Penny Mordaunt (Conservative – Portsmouth North)
- Anne Marie Morris (Conservative – Newton Abbot)
- David Morris (Conservative – Morecambe and Lunesdale)
- James Morris (Conservative – Halesowen and Rowley Regis)
- Joy Morrissey (Conservative – Beaconsfield)
- Wendy Morton (Conservative – Aldridge-Brownhills)
- Kieran Mullan (Conservative – Crewe and Nantwich)
- Holly Mumby-Croft (Conservative – Scunthorpe)
- David Mundell (Conservative – Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale)
- Sheryll Murray (Conservative – South East Cornwall)
- Andrew Murrison (Conservative – South West Wiltshire)
- Robert Neill (Conservative – Bromley and Chislehurst)
- Lia Nici (Conservative – Great Grimsby)
- Caroline Nokes (Conservative – Romsey and Southampton North)
- Jesse Norman (Conservative – Hereford and South Herefordshire)
- Neil O’Brien (Conservative – Harborough)
- Matthew Offord (Conservative – Hendon)
- Guy Opperman (Conservative – Hexham)
- Neil Parish (Conservative – Tiverton and Honiton)
- Priti Patel (Conservative – Witham)
- Mark Pawsey (Conservative – Rugby)
- Mike Penning (Conservative – Hemel Hempstead)
- John Penrose (Conservative – Weston-super-Mare)
- Chris Philp (Conservative – Croydon South)
- Christopher Pincher (Conservative – Tamworth)
- Dan Poulter (Conservative – Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)
- Victoria Prentis (Conservative – Banbury)
- Tom Pursglove (Conservative – Corby)
- Jeremy Quin (Conservative – Horsham)
- Will Quince (Conservative – Colchester)
- Dominic Raab (Conservative – Esher and Walton)
- Tom Randall (Conservative – Gedling)
- John Redwood (Conservative – Wokingham)
- Jacob Rees-Mogg (Conservative – North East Somerset)
- Nicola Richards (Conservative – West Bromwich East)
- Angela Richardson (Conservative – Guildford)
- Rob Roberts (Conservative – Delyn)
- Laurence Robertson (Conservative – Tewkesbury)
- Mary Robinson (Conservative – Cheadle)
- Andrew Rosindell (Conservative – Romford)
- Douglas Ross (Conservative – Moray)
- Lee Rowley (Conservative – North East Derbyshire)
- Dean Russell (Conservative – Watford)
- David Rutley (Conservative – Macclesfield)
- Gary Sambrook (Conservative – Birmingham, Northfield)
- Selaine Saxby (Conservative – North Devon)
- Paul Scully (Conservative – Sutton and Cheam)
- Bob Seely (Conservative – Isle of Wight)
- Andrew Selous (Conservative – South West Bedfordshire)
- Grant Shapps (Conservative – Welwyn Hatfield)
- Alok Sharma (Conservative – Reading West)
- Alec Shelbrooke (Conservative – Elmet and Rothwell)
- David Simmonds (Conservative – Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner)
- Chris Skidmore (Conservative – Kingswood)
- Chloe Smith (Conservative – Norwich North)
- Greg Smith (Conservative – Buckingham)
- Henry Smith (Conservative – Crawley)
- Julian Smith (Conservative – Skipton and Ripon)
- Royston Smith (Conservative – Southampton, Itchen)
- Amanda Solloway (Conservative – Derby North)
- Ben Spencer (Conservative – Runnymede and Weybridge)
- Mark Spencer (Conservative – Sherwood)
- Alexander Stafford (Conservative – Rother Valley)
- Andrew Stephenson (Conservative – Pendle)
- Jane Stevenson (Conservative – Wolverhampton North East)
- John Stevenson (Conservative – Carlisle)
- Bob Stewart (Conservative – Beckenham)
- Iain Stewart (Conservative – Milton Keynes South)
- Gary Streeter (Conservative – South West Devon)
- Graham Stuart (Conservative – Beverley and Holderness)
- Julian Sturdy (Conservative – York Outer)
- Rishi Sunak (Conservative – Richmond (Yorks))
- James Sunderland (Conservative – Bracknell)
- Desmond Swayne (Conservative – New Forest West)
- Robert Syms (Conservative – Poole)
- Derek Thomas (Conservative – St Ives)
- Maggie Throup (Conservative – Erewash)
- Edward Timpson (Conservative – Eddisbury)
- Kelly Tolhurst (Conservative – Rochester and Strood)
- Justin Tomlinson (Conservative – North Swindon)
- Craig Tracey (Conservative – North Warwickshire)
- Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Conservative – Berwick-upon-Tweed)
- Elizabeth Truss (Conservative – South West Norfolk)
- Tom Tugendhat (Conservative – Tonbridge and Malling)
- Martin Vickers (Conservative – Cleethorpes)
- Matt Vickers (Conservative – Stockton South)
- Theresa Villiers (Conservative – Chipping Barnet)
- Christian Wakeford (Conservative – Bury South)
- Robin Walker (Conservative – Worcester)
- Charles Walker (Conservative – Broxbourne)
- Ben Wallace (Conservative – Wyre and Preston North)
- Jamie Wallis (Conservative – Bridgend)
- David Warburton (Conservative – Somerton and Frome)
- Matt Warman (Conservative – Boston and Skegness)
- Giles Watling (Conservative – Clacton)
- Suzanne Webb (Conservative – Stourbridge)
- Helen Whately (Conservative – Faversham and Mid Kent)
- Craig Whittaker (Conservative – Calder Valley)
- John Whittingdale (Conservative – Maldon)
- Bill Wiggin (Conservative – North Herefordshire)
- James Wild (Conservative – North West Norfolk)
- Craig Williams (Conservative – Montgomeryshire)
- Gavin Williamson (Conservative – South Staffordshire)
- Mike Wood (Conservative – Dudley South)
- William Wragg (Conservative – Hazel Grove)
- Jeremy Wright (Conservative – Kenilworth and Southam)
- Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative – Stratford-on-Avon)
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