Donald Trump has demanded UK pharmaceutical giants lower prices for America and suggested charging others to make up the difference.
He said if they didn’t, the US would deploy ‘every tool in our arsenal’ to protect families from ‘continued abusive drug prices’, sparking fears the NHS will end up paying more.
Mr Trump suggested he would use tariffs to push through higher prices if countries resisted.
In May Mr Trump signed an executive order demanding drugmakers cut US medicine prices to match those abroad.
Yesterday in a letter to 17 pharma companies he said he expected them to deliver on measures by September 29.
