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Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson Hon FRIBA (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician, writer, and former journalist serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2019. He was Foreign Secretary from 2016 to 2018 and Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016. Johnson was Member of Parliament for Henley from 2001 to 2008 and has been MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015. Ideologically, Johnson identifies as a one-nation conservative.
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Johnson shamed into dropping £400 surcharge on foreign health workers to access NHS services
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Boris Johnson has been shamed into a screeching U-turn on scrapping £400 fees for foreign health and social care workers to access the NHS “as soon as possible”.
He ordered a swift about-turn after he had been embarrassed by Labour’s Keir Starmer and the SNP’s Ian Blackford at Prime Ministers Questions on Wednesday.
Johnson left defending the charge as “the right way forward” to boost NHS funds. But on Thursday afternoon a Downing Street spokesman said he changed his mind because “he had been a personal beneficiary of carers from abroad” when he was treated in intensive care for coronavirus.
Just hours earlier Downing Street insisted the Prime Minister was standing by the surcharge.Get all the top Scottish politics news sent straight to
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