After last night’s interview with Andrew Neil, Jeremy Corbyn desperately needs to change the conversation. He attempted to do that this morning, presenting a set of leaked documents that he said showed the NHS would be sold out if the Tories won the election. But the problem for Corbyn is that these documents don’t show that. Yes, the US wants to extend patents on drugs—which would push up their prices—but there is absolutely no indication that the UK has agreed to this.
It is tempting to compare Corbyn’s desire to get the idea going that the NHS will be sold out as part of UK/ US trade deal to Vote Leave’s warnings about Turkey joining the EU. But there is a crucial difference: it was government policy that Turkey should join the EU. This meant there was a kernel of truth behind Vote Leave’s claims on this question.
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