Our Home Secretary doesn't do emotional intelligence. Imagine working in the NHS at the moment, undoubtedly putting your life on the line, with overflowing wards, variable equipment supplies, major staff shortages, and a virus in the air that nobody can, at present, systematically cure. It kills 13-year-olds as well as pensioners.
Most countries would regard those health workers as heroes, and would judge those working in the NHS from abroad on short-term visas as brave as many of the soldiers from other countries who fought alongside British troops in the Second World War.
I'd like to think we could afford to give these 2,800 people, and their families, whatever they wanted, at the end of all this - up to and including citizenship, if they wanted.
Yesterday Priti Patel demonstrated her style of generosity, by announcing that doctors, nurses and paramedics with visas due to expire before 1 October 2020 will have them automatically extended for one year.
"I don’t want them distracted by the visa process. That is why I have automatically extended their visas – free of charge – for a further year."
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