MEMBERS of Save Devon NHS met with Newton Abbot MP Anne Marie Morris to discuss their views on a deal that could threaten the NHS and called on her to take action.

They met with the MP at her constituency surgery in Newton Abbot’s Passmore Edwards Centre on Friday to talk about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

TTIP is a trade deal agreement between the EU and the United States that could privatise the NHS and it could grant any firm with American investors the power to sue the government if it ever attempted to take the privatised NHS back into public ownership.

After the meeting with Save Devon NHS, Anne Marie Morris said: ‘We had a constructive meeting, talking about the issues raised by TTIP.

‘I think we all agreed that voting to leave the EU would resolve all our concerns.

‘The UK can only suggest what is or is not in TTIP, it can’t veto it.’

A spokesman for Save Devon NHS said: ‘She seemed very interested in the legal document we handed to her.

‘We are hoping that she’ll write to David Cameron to get the NHS out of the TTIP trade deal.

‘All we can do now is keep up the fight.’