Boris Johnson puts pressure on the surcharge of migrant health workers – BBC News

NHS staff and carers from outside the EU do not have to pay a fee for the right to use the health service. After the prime minister told deputies 24 hours earlier that the quota should be maintained, the policy was violently renewed.

A group of Conservative MPs joined opposition parties in throwing a 400-pound surcharge a year. Boris Johnson, who has acknowledged that he owes his life abroad to NHS staff, said yesterday that it would be “very difficult” to find alternative sources of money.

Labor leader Sir Keir Starmer said he was under pressure to step down as prime minister, saying the turn was a “victory for the ordinary decree”.

Meanwhile, the first test for anti-coronavirus in the UK will be available from next week. Health and care workers in England, along with hospital patients and caregivers in UK countries, will be the first to be tested to see if they already have the virus.

Huw Edwards presents BBC News in ten reports from political correspondent Jessica Parker and health editor Hugh Pym

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