'Populist Idiocy': Backlash Over Tory Boast About Crackdown On Overseas Care Workers

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'Populist Idiocy': Backlash Over Tory Boast About Crackdown On Overseas Care Workers
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The strategy included banning overseas care workers from bringing dependents with them to the UK as the minimum income requirement for anyone wanting to move foreign family members with them was to be more than doubled to £38,700.The new rules will come into effect from March 11. On Monday, Cleverly took to X to highlight how the ban is moving forward.

On X, Cleverly’s update received short shrift. SNP leader at Westminster, Stephen Flynn, said: “This will damage the care sector, the NHS and the economy. It is populist idiocy.” “Today in Parliament we used the only life we’ll ever have to needlessly make the country a nastier, colder place to live while simultaneously ensuring there’ll be nobody available to look after your nan.”Is it any wonder so much exploitation takes place in the care sector when even the government pushes the idea migrants working in it are just there to serve others, instead of being treated with respect and decency.FYI...

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