Why the Lib Dems are being branded ‘Yellow Tories’

Jo Swinson’s party angers Labour supporters over NHS privatisation vote

Sarah Wollaston and Chuka Umunna
Sarah Wollaston, a former Conservative, and her fellow Lib Dem MP Chuka Umunna, formerly of Labour
(Image credit: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images)

“Yellow Tories” was trending on Twitter this morning after the Liberal Democrats refused to back a Commons motion preventing NHS privatisation.

The Labour Party put forward a motion to amend the Queen’s Speech to include protection for the NHS from being up for grabs in future trade deals that would “put profit before public health”.

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