Scrap '£3bn Trump tax' to fund social care, says Lib Dem deputy leader

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The deal with Donald Trump’s US which could see the NHS pay billions more for drugs should be scrapped, with the money put towards social care instead, the Liberal Democrats have said. The agreement keeps US imports of UK pharmaceuticals tariff-free for three years in return for the NHS raising its threshold for spending on new medicines by 25%.But Lib Dem deputy leader Daisy Cooper said the money used to pay off the “bully in the White House” could have been used to fund social care.

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00:00That there has been no scrutiny of this decision to remove three billion pounds from frontline

00:26services and to put it into the hands and the pockets of big pharmaceutical companies,

00:32all at the request of Donald Trump.

00:35We think that the British Prime Minister should put our NHS first, should put British patients

00:40first.

00:41If we want to have a debate about how we spend our health funding, then of course we can

00:44have that debate.

00:45But to reallocate money from frontline services into the pockets of pharmaceutical companies

00:50at the behest of Donald Trump is the wrong thing to do.

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