UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has hit back a US President Donald Trump’s jibe that Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) was “going broke and not working.”
On Monday, Trump used an NHS rally attended by a large group of people in London to attack Democrats and their resistance against the Republican desire to repeal the Affordable Care Act, former president Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law.
“The Democrats are pushing for Universal HealthCare while thousands of people are marching in the UK because their U system is going broke and not working. Dems want to greatly raise taxes for really bad and non-personal medical care. No thanks!” Trump tweeted.
The statement did not go down well with Corbyn, who took to twitter and confronted Trump.
“Wrong. People were marching because we love our NHS and hate what the Tories are doing to it. Healthcare is a human right,” he said.
A main opponent of UK Prime Minister Theresa…