Image: One in 6 A&E departments face closure, it emerged yesterday.
It’s a trick perfected by Donald Trump, and one which his new soul sister, Theresa May, seems only too happy to embrace with open arms. Turn the heat away from your domestic policy flaws by ramping it up on migrants instead. For Downing Street’s spin doctors, just like the White House's, any old dead cat will do, it seems, but none works quite as well a foreign one.
The latest example of the brazenness with which May is willing to play the immigrant card is the placing of this week’s story about banning NHS treatments from non-British nationals who cannot afford to pay up front for them. Jeremy Hunt adroitly ensured that so-called ‘health tourists’ would once again dominate the front pages by announcing that, as from April this year, hospitals will be required by law to deny non-emergency treatments to those patients unable to prove they are entitled to free care.
