Most of the media reaction so far echoes the Tory response: nothing to see here; the document shows what the USA wants but not what the UK would give. That brings it back to the question of trust in Johnson and the Tories. I don't believe a word of their claims the NHS is safe with them and not on the table in UK/US trade negotiations. I hope and expect that social media is less likely to trust the spin.

The organisation that first leaked the documents in a redacted form has put out a good statement to summarise the key points:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...and-faith-live

The campaigning group Global Justice Now has welcomed the release of the leaked documents. The organisation released the original, heavily redacted version of these papers that were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act. These were the papers Jeremy Corbyn was brandishing during the ITV debate last week.

In a news release, Global Justice Now also offered its own summary of what these documents show. Here it is in full.

The US pushing lower food standards on Britain post Brexit, including allowing imports of chlorine-washed chickens, less nutritional labelling on foods, and less protection for regional food like stilton cheese. The US offered to help the UK government ‘sell’ chlorine chicken to a sceptical British public and stated that parliamentary scrutiny of food standards is ‘unhelpful’.

The US banning any mention of climate change in a US-UK trade deal.

US officials threatening UK civil servants that they would undermine US trade talks if they supported certain EU positions in international forums.

The US suggesting a ‘corporate court system’ in a US-UK deal, which would allow big business to sue the British government, in secret and without appeal, for anything they regard as ‘unfair’. Recent similar cases have included suing governments for trying to phase out use of coal.

US officials pushing a far reaching proposals on the digital economy, giving Big Tech companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon sweeping freedoms to move and use our online data, which would make taxation and regulation of these companies more difficult and prohibit Labour proposals for a public broadband service.

Threats to public services like the NHS, via sweeping services liberalisation. The British government would need to exclude everything not subject to liberalisation in order to protect public services, while bringing formerly public services like the mail, or rail companies back into public ownership would be much harder.

US officials making a further threat to NHS in terms of medicine pricing policy, with special concern about Brits paying more for cancer medicines which the US feels Britain doesn’t pay enough for. Trade negotiators have received special lobbying from pharmaceutical corporations as part of the trade talks.

US officials demanding US experts and multinational corporations are able to participate in standard-setting in Britain post Brexit.

A promise by both sides to keep talks secret from the public.