Labour's Corbyn says PM Johnson seeking to "unleash Thatcherism on steroids"

• Thatcher is a hate figure in many of the working class communities that voted in 2016 to leave the EU.
• More than three years after Britain voted to leave the EU, both of its main political parties have suffered from division over Brexit.
• Corbyn says Johnson will seek to recast Britain into a deregulated playground for 'plutocrats', where workers have few rights.

(London) Opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday said Prime Minister Boris Johnson was seeking to hijack Brexit to "unleash Thatcherism on steroids" by slashing regulations and moving the United Kingdom towards an American economic model.

Thatcher is a hate figure in many of the working class communities that voted in 2016 to leave the EU, where Johnson hopes to win seats from Labour to build a pro-Brexit majority.

Corbyn, whose party is trailing the Conservatives in opinion polls, will say Johnson's government would include the National Health Service (NHS) in a post-Brexit U.S. trade deal.

More than three years after Britain voted to leave the EU, both of its main political parties have suffered from division over Brexit. But while Johnson has now firmly positioned his Conservatives behind his call to "get Brexit done," Corbyn has kept Labour's stance open.

He says if elected he would negotiate a new deal with the EU that would do more to protect workers, then put it to the people in another referendum, alongside the option to stay in the bloc.

Johnson says the policy is too vague and creates more uncertainty.

Corbyn, 70, says Johnson will seek to recast Britain into a deregulated playground for 'plutocrats', where workers have few rights. Johnson, 55, says Corbyn, an unabashed leftist, will sink the economy with 1970's-style socialist state planning.

Under Britain's NHS, hospitals are owned by the state and treatment is free. Voters cite protecting it as the second most important issue after Brexit. Labour says the Conservatives want to move to an expensive, privately-owned U.S.-style system.

Johnson has repeatedly said the NHS would not be on the table in trade talks. One of his most senior ministers, Michael Gove, said Corbyn's claim that American drug companies could carve up parts of the NHS was "the most ridiculous nonsense I have ever heard in my 52 years on this earth."

Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump, who has previously said everything should be on the table in trade talks, denied Labour's claims that the NHS would be up for grabs, telling LBC radio: "It's not for us to have anything to do with your healthcare system."