A group of people are brought in to Dover, Kent, by Border Force
NURSES have warned that Priti Patel’s asylum reforms will further restrict refugees’ access to healthcare and impact their ability to treat vulnerable patients.
Nurses’ union RCN is urging peers to scrap measures in the Nationality and Borders Bill that it says will impact nursing staff and the provision of care for vulnerable groups.
The Bill, which is currently being scrutinised in the House of Lords, seeks to create a two-tier asylum system allowing individuals to be treated differently depending on their means of arrival to Britain. Those who enter via irregular routes could be denied leave to remain.
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
Digital ID means the government could track anyone and then limit their speech, movements, finances — and it could get this all wrong, identifying the wrong people for the wrong reasons, as the numerous digital cockups so far demonstrate, warns DYLAN MURPHY