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