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Johnson U-turns on ‘immoral’ NHS charge for migrant health workers after pressure from MPs
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THE government yielded to pressure from campaigners, Labour and Tory rebels today as it scrapped NHS fees for overseas health workers.

Boris Johnson asked for foreign NHS and care workers to be removed from the immigration health surcharge as soon as possible amid a mounting rebellion from his own MPs.

Former Conservative Party vice-chairman Sir Roger Gale had warned that keeping the fees “would rightly be perceived as mean-spirited, doctrinaire and petty.”

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