Aditya Chakrabortty
speaker
493 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 23 Jul
Aditya Chakrabortty’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's been conducted by three world leading researchers, one of whom has got an intimate association with a body which actually sets the medicines that we get through the NHS.
These are not like guys after a quick headline.
These are people who've been working it for decades, right?
So I tend to take their analysis very seriously, especially when the Department of Health is not able to give me any serious answer to the charges they make.
The most rapacious president in American history now has his little hands on our NHS.
Pharmaceutical companies operating this country, multinational pharmaceutical companies operating this country, have been saying for some time that they find the NHS doesn't allow them to make enough return for the drugs they sell.
They do say that.
Two, the government would say, well, look,
Trump wanted to sign a trade deal with us.
We have to do some give and take.
We thought it was worth signing this pharmaceutical deal with him if it means that we get this guaranteed reduced tariffs on other areas.
Right.
That's that's what they would say.
Against all that, I would just say one thing.
Trump is quite capable of reneging on trade deals when he likes, right?
He signed a deal on AI with us, which he then decided, because he hated our online safety stuff, I don't want to do that.
I'm welching that.
He constantly rips up bits of paper, throws it to the wind and says, right, you deal with it.
So we're not...
doing a deal with a very stable ordered rational safe actor here we're doing it with a very tempestuous guy who seems to be running i would say american politics for the benefit of him and a select group of cronies and business people that he likes right and this looks like a classic trade deal along those lines
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