Nigel Farage’s proposal to end indefinite leave to remain is not just an immigration stance (Nigel Farage roundly condemned over plan to abolish indefinite leave to remain, 22 September). It is a direct threat to the NHS. Foreign-born staff make up a vital share of our health service workforce. More than a third of doctors and one in five of all NHS workers were born overseas. These are not temporary contributors. They are long-term carers and specialists who have built their lives here and sustained our public health system through crisis after crisis.
To deny them the right to settle is to destabilise the NHS. It sends a message that their labour is welcome, but their lives are not. Without the security of indefinite leave to remain many will leave or never come in the first place.
