Cancer care fears are rubbished

MINISTERS last night rubbished claims that Brexit could restrict access to radioactive material used to treat cancer.

The Royal College of Radiologists said it was ‘seriously concerned’ about continued access to medical nuclear material after we leave the EU.

Remainer Tory MPs seized on the comments and demanded that Britain stay a member of the EU’s nuclear agency, Euratom, and threatened a Parliamentary rebellion.

But Secretary of State Damian Green dismissed the claims as ‘scaremongering’. He said leaving Euratom would not affect Britain’s ability to import medical isotopes, adding: ‘Euratom places no restrictions on the export of medical isotopes to countries outside the EU.’