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Calling Peston: The ITV News Politics Podcast

Truth or lies: Is the NHS for sale?

Calling Peston: The ITV News Politics Podcast

ITV News

Politics, Government, News

4.3179 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The NHS has taken centre stage in the election campaign today, with Labour and the Tories clashing again over whether the NHS is "up for sale" in a US trade deal. Today Jeremy Corbyn produced what he said were 451 pages of "uncensored" government documents which, he said, showed the NHS would be "on the table" in talks with the Trump administration. But the Tories hit back, accusing the Labour leader of "out-and-out lying" - deliberately taking passages out of context from documents which had been publicly available online for weeks. Boris Johnson described the Labour claims as "total nonsense", insisting: "The NHS is not on the table in any way." So what's the truth? We get Robert's take and we hear from Romilly Weeks about the key points from the documents. We talk to ITV News Scotland Correspondent Peter Smith who was at the SNP's manifesto launch in Glasgow - he takes us through the headlines as Nicola Sturgeon insisted there is "every chance" her party will hold the balance of power at Westminster after the general election. A little further afield, we hear from ITV News Europe Editor James Mates, who's in Spain (lucky him). He's been speaking to Brits living there who will be voting in the election back home about what's on their mind as they prepare to cast their vote. And Daniel and Shehab discuss a very important question, sparked by a tweet by Lib Dem candidate Chuka Umunna - do you have chips when you have a Full English breakfast? We’ll bring you a new episode of Calling Peston every weekday around 5pm throughout the election campaign. Don’t forget to subscribe - and if you like what you hear, do rate us and leave a review. Get in touch with the Calling Peston team - contact @DanielHewittITV, @ShehabKhan and @Peston. For the latest election news, go to itv.com/news and follow @ITVNewsPolitics on Twitter.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, you, welcome to episode 16 of Calling Peston, 20 minutes of unredacted political content that reveals everything you need to know about the 2019 general election.

0:14.9

I'm Daniel Hewitt sitting opposite me.

0:17.1

Hello, is Sheehab Khan, and Calling Pestan would not be calling Pestan without us calling Peston.

0:21.9

Robert will be on the phone later for his take on the day's big stories. Also today, we've got

0:26.2

a friend of the show Romilly Weeks coming in. We've got Scotland's finest broadcaster Peter Smith

0:30.9

at the SMP launch in Glasgow, and we have our Europe editor, James Mates, who's managed to wangle himself a trip to the Costa del Sol.

0:38.7

Find out why later.

0:39.8

But first, Shehab, Kahn has your 60-second rundown on Wednesday the 27th of November.

0:44.0

The big news of the day is that Jeremy Corbyn revealed government documents that he claims reveal that the NHS is on the table for a future US trade deal.

0:53.4

Boris Johnson has rubbish these claims and says the

0:55.6

NHS is not and will never be for sale. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was also questioned today

1:01.1

during a press conference about his reluctance to apologise for anti-Semitism, while the Prime Minister

1:06.3

apologised over allegations of Islamophobia in the Conservative Party.

1:15.3

Meanwhile, Nicola Sturgeon launched the SMP's Manifesto in Scotland.

1:19.3

And we'll be talking to Peter Smith about that in Glasgow shortly.

1:21.1

Thank you, Shihab, for your rundown.

1:22.5

You are more than welcome, Daniel.

1:22.9

Thank you.

1:25.4

First big issue of the day.

1:30.0

Chips, honour-c cooked breakfast. Yes or no?

1:35.9

100% no. Agreed. Chukharamuna tweeted earlier, a picture of his breakfast that he had today.

1:42.1

It was a full English breakfast and it included chips. Chips have no place on a cooked English breakfast.

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