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How post‐Brexit trade deals could undermine Wales’ food, health service and devolved powers, and how to make sure they don’t

Summary of the briefing:

• Modern trade deals go well beyond tariffs. They can affect our food standards, our public services, our environment and our democratic ability to regulate big business.
• Post-Brexit trade deals could, if not negotiated democratically, have a profoundly negative impact on Wales – undermining farmers, the NHS, education, culture, the environment and local government here.

As the NHS turns 70, it is locked in a crisis of underfunding. The reasons are many, from government funding cuts to the massive debts racked up as a result of Private Finance Initiatives. But one factor that gets less notice is the rip-off prices the pharmaceutical industry charges for a huge range of drugs.

Template to write to your local paper about our opposition to the Hostile Environment policy

This briefing provides the key talking points that you can use in a meeting with your MP about our campaign for affordable medicines. The briefing is intended to help you lobby:

- An MP who has not taken action on this campaign

- An MP who has taken action on this campaign or

-An MP that is a member of the business, health or public accounts committees

Please use the lobbying advice that is most relevant to your MP.

The effects of global warming are already wreaking havoc in many parts of the world. From hurricanes to drought, catastrophic events linked to climate change are hitting people in the global south hardest.

Yet this global inequality and the failure to tackle climate change have the same cause: an economy that puts corporate profit ahead of the interests of ordinary people.

This briefing for MPs and parliamentarians documents examples of where publicly funded research and development has led to drugs that the public have found difficult to access. It calls for conditions to be attached to public research to ensure drugs are affordable for all patients. 

Sick of Corporate Greed: The fight for affordable medicine on your campus is an action guide to help university students campaign and affect change.

How Theresa May has created an underclass in the UK