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MIGRANT social care workers and porters cleaning coronavirus-ridden hospitals have been left out of government plans to extend visas for foreign NHS staff free of charge.
Home Secretary Priti Patel has been under pressure to clarify an announcement last month in which she said that NHS staff whose visas were due to expire before October can automatically have them extended for free for a year.
MPs pressed the Home Secretary on whether this would also include NHS support staff such as porters, cleaners and financial workers, as well as those in the social care sector.
The visa system traps workers with abusive employers, creating a vulnerable workforce scared to complain for fear of deportation — that is why we’re campaigning for a ‘common sponsorship’ model instead, writes FAVOUR DAVIDKING
Home Secretary Cooper confirms plans to ban the group and claims its peaceful activists ‘meet the legal threshold under the Terrorism Act 2000’