Jeremy Corbyn: I Would Kill TTIP

Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn took aim at the TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) on Thursday, saying he would kill the controversial U.S. and EU trade deal should he become prime minister.

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His comments came during a speech in London campaigning to remain in the EU just three weeks ahead of the Brexit referendum, which Corbyn has framed as an “era-defining moment” for workers’ rights.

“Many thousands of people have written to me, with their concerns about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (or TTIP) the deal being negotiated, largely in secret, between the U.S. and the EU,” he said in his speech in London.

“Many people are concerned rightly that it could open up public services to further privatization—and make privatization effectively irreversible,” he added. “Others are concerned about any potential watering down of consumer rights, food safety standards, rights at work or environmental protections, and the facility for corporations to sue national governments if regulations impinged on their profits,” he said, referring to ISDS tribunals.

He also referenced French President François Hollande’s signaling his opposition to the deal last month, adding, “So today we give this pledge, as it stands, we too would reject TTIP—and veto it in Government.”