Anti-racism campaigners attend a vigil outside the Home Office in Westminster in October 2019
MPS highlighted the crucial role of migrants in front-line services in a bid to end the government’s “hostile environment” policy today.
SNP immigration spokesman Stuart McDonald MP is calling for an urgent overhaul of the “hostile and flawed” immigration policies, which make life in Britain for migrants tougher while many risk their health in key-worker roles.
He pointed to government plans to charter a number of flights for Romanian workers to harvest British farms.
“With the UK government having to charter flights to bring in hundreds of workers from EU countries to help UK farms survive, a significant number of migrant doctors and healthcare workers on the front line in the fight against Covid-19 and asylum-seekers and refugees keen to utilise their medical skills to help the NHS, the lessons are there to be learned,” he said.
