Tories slam the door on foreign care and health workers
Labour accuses government of ‘rank hypocrisy’ for clapping for NHS workers while telling them they're not welcome in the country
LABOUR slammed the government’s “rank hypocrisy” today for slamming the door on foreign care and health workers by steaming ahead with its immigration Bill.
Shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds declared that Labour would not support the Bill, which had its second reading in the Commons today, because it poses a “threat to our national interest.”
He said: “It is rank hypocrisy towards our NHS and care workers — over 180,000 in England and Wales alone — to stand and clap for them on a Thursday night and then tell them that they are not welcome in the UK on a Monday.
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