Live: Ed Davey gives keynote speech to Lib Dem conference

Описание: Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey will give his speech to the party's annual conference in Bournemouth.

He is expected call for a dedicated fellowship scheme to attract cancer researchers from the US as part of a plan to make cancer a “top priority” on the NHS.

And he will also speak about US President Donald Trump, with Sir Ed expected to describe “what’s happening on the other side of the Atlantic” as the “biggest threat to the fight against cancer”.

He will add: “Because the United States is by far the world’s biggest funder of cancer research – mostly through its National Cancer Institute.

“But since Donald Trump returned to the White House, he has cancelled hundreds of grants for cancer research projects.”

He will also criticise Reform’s conference earlier this month, where attendees “enthusiastically applauded” cutting off “research into medicine that has the power to save so many lives”.

The UK should “step up and say: if Trump won’t back this research, we will”, Sir Ed will add.

His party would pledge to build a national cancer research centre, and pass a cancer survival research Act to this end.

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