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Labour party have got a million things that they said they want to spend money on. They don’t have the money to pay for it. And that means you’re all going to pay for it in higher taxes.
“And I don’t want that. I want you to have a more financially secure future where your hard work is rewarded and your taxes are being cut.”
Labour for not having produced “a single new idea in the last week, not a single new idea that they’ve put on the table,” since the election was called, contrasting it with Conservative announcements on national service, the so-called triple lock plus, and today’s policy on “rip-off degrees”.Conservatives, we’ve had an over reliance on international students and workers from overseas in our health and care system. And that’s risky because we’ve got a global shortage. So we shouldn’t assume that pool of talent will always be there for us to draw on.
“We are still turning away 1000s of straight A students from studying medicine each year. That’s something we’ve got to remedy. We’ve got to redress the balance.”
Streeting said the government “should not be recruiting from Red List countries. I do not want to see that happening … the moral and ethical thing to do would be not to recruit from those countries.
“There are of course other countries not on the red list. And we do recruit from there. But what I want to do over time through a serious workforce plan is reduce our reliance on overseas workers and help Yvette Cooper to bring down net migration.”
MSPs have voted to sanction ex-health secretary Michael Matheson to a 27 day suspension and to withdraw his salary for 54 days. There were 64 votes for and 63 abstentions for a motion. SNP leader said there were “deep flaws” in the process.
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Source: theguardian.com
