Aditya Chakrabortty

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493 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 23 Jul

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Today in Focus · How Labour diverted billions from NHS services to appease Trump – The Latest · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

So to pay Donald Trump...

for the trade deal that he forces to sign, we are going to effectively be losing.

We have to lose services elsewhere in the NHS.

So that may well mean that you get fewer doctors and nurses than you'd like, fewer ambulances than you'd like, fewer cancer scans than you'd like, all sorts of mental health support that you might like.

And what the academics say is that has a direct health cost.

And the health cost day estimate is it could lead to something like 220,000 avoidable deaths over the period, which is more, almost double what we saw over the COVID period.

Now, remember, Lucy.

When COVID happened and afterwards, there was an awful lot from Keir Starmer, West Streeting and Labour politicians at the time.

This must never happen again.

We must learn the lessons.

There's no way we should be having that amount of avoidable loss of human life.

Well, now you have academics say as a result of a treaty signed between Whitehall and Washington, you have the possibility, the prospect of a huge amount of human life being lost and a huge amount being drained out of our health service as a result.

I write in my column in today's paper that it's basically a massacre made in Whitehall at the behest of Donald Trump and to buffer the shareholder returns of multinational pharmaceutical companies.

You're completely right.

I went to the Department of Health and what really strikes me is how little information they'll give you.

The Department of Health has conducted something called an impact assessment on this trade deal.

However, it will not share the details of that impact assessment.

It will not share with MPs.

Is that unusual?

It's unusual for that amount of secrecy about something that affects all of our lives.

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