Tories row on Brexit Big C risk

SENIOR Tories claim ministers are lying about the extent of Brexit’s impact on cancer sufferers.

The Government said that leaving Euratom, the EU’s nuclear energy community, would result in patients missing out on radiotherapy.

But the Tory rebels have c ompiled a dossier demolishing claims by First Secretary Damian Green, business minister Richard Harrington and Brexit minister Steve Baker.

Dr Nicola Strickland of the Royal College of Radiologists said 500,000 cancer scans are done using imported material from the EU and 10,000 patients are treated each year.

She added: “We are concerned about continued access to these materials if we leave the Euratom.”

And the British Nuclear Medicine Society said: “Leaving Euratom will impact on supplies and cost of medical radioisotopes.”

One of the Tory rebels said: “The Government shouldn’t get away with this. What they have said is patently untrue.” SIX feet 11ins tall Connor Tierney, 15, won a basketball scholarship in Waterbury, Connecticut, and will leave home in Hove, East Sussex.