England’s football captain Harry Kane may get a World Cup ban by Fifa if he sticks to his word and wears a ‘One Love’ armband. Fifa told the Football Association (FA) on Sunday that the armband – worn in of solidarity of gay and marginalised people and to highlight discrimination against them– does not comply […]
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Boris Johnson has bowed to pressure and will scrap the NHS surcharge for migrant healthcare workers. A Downing Street spokesman said the prime minister asked the Home Office and Department of Health and Social care to remove NHS and care workers from the scheme “as soon as possible”, despite ruling it out only yesterday. “Work […]
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The government’s highly anticipated Immigration Bill has been condemned as a “slap in the face” for NHS and care sector migrant workers fighting against the coronavirus. “The current crisis has shone a light on how we value those who provide compassionate care across health and social care,” said the home secretary Priti Patel, who dismissed […]
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Hundreds of migrant workers from Eastern Europe are being flown to the UK to pick and sort farm produce that would otherwise rot in the fields. The first of several planes carrying foreign farm food pickers landed at an empty Stansted airport, north of London, yesterday (April 16). Around 180 Romanian workers – wearing protective […]
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