Tory Party Subservience to Big Business

The motion

That the Parliament notes the recent publication of the current list of companies involved with the Conservative administration's UKTI Strategic Relations Team; suggests that these companies include some of the biggest corporations in the world today; understands that each of these companies has a direct line to government ministers and senior civil servants; proposes that this typifies the subservience of the Conservative administration and Conservative Party to big business; believes that this can and often is at the expense of the wider public interest and ordinary people; notes for instance the involvement with the UKTI Strategic Relations Team of the transvaginal mesh manufacturer, Johnson and Johnson, the link with the Minister for Life Sciences, George Freeman, and what it considers his banal letter to the Scottish Parliament’s Public Petitions Committee in relation to petition PE01517 Polypropylene Mesh Medical Devices, in which, it considers, he did not address any of the substantive points in the petition, which expresses deep concern at the hugely painful and detrimental consequences for far too many people through being fitted with transvaginal mesh devices, and suggests that it would be novel if ministers and governments opened up direct links to ordinary people, such as the Scottish Mesh Survivors Hear Our Voice Campaign, in the same way as they open up their offices to the likes of Johnson and Johnson.

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