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India needs a National Health Service like in Britain to combat the coronavirus pandemic June 7, 2021, 8:35 AM IST
A journalist who has lived all over India and is now based in Bangalore
The question needs to be asked: If we could follow the Westminster style of democracy, why couldn’t we have emulated the British National Health Service (NHS), the United Kingdom’s publicly funded health-care system whose 75th anniversary is being observed this year? Founded in 1946 a year after World War Two ended, the NHS was the brainchild of the Labour government’s minister for health Aneurin Bevan who, at the age of 13, had to work in the coal mines in Wales due to poverty before he became an activist and a full-time Labour Party member. Born in 1897 in Tredegar in Wales, Bevan was inspired by the Tredegar Medical Aid Society which had a system where, in return for contributions from its members, health-care was provided free at the point of us
Priti Patel Vows Reform of ‘Broken’ Immigration System
Home Secretary Priti Patel pledged wholesale reform of the UK’s “broken” immigration system as she unveiled plans for a “fully digital border” within five years.
In a keynote speech on Monday, Patel vowed to deliver a system that works for the “law-abiding majority” and against those who seek to “abuse our hospitality and generous spirit.” She also launched the U.S.-style Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA), which requires visitors to the UK to obtain an electronic permit before travelling.This would make the border more secure, with automatic checks allowing the government to “count people in and count people out” of the country, providing a “far clearer picture of who is here, and whether they should be,” she said, adding, “And we will act when they are not.”
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Priti Patel acknowledging immigration as a security issue will be music to the ears of many in the Red Wall
The success of our multi-racial, religiously diverse democracy rests on a post-Brexit border policy with public security at its core
25 May 2021 • 12:22pm
Home Secretary Priti Patel couldn’t have been clearer: the UK’s immigration and asylum system is broken and that the British people deserve a border security arrangement that commands their trust and confidence.
In her keynote speech for yesterday’s conference, jointly held by think-tanks Bright Blue and British Future, Patel correctly observed that concerns over immigration and pace of social change played their part in the UK’s decision to leave the EU and recent Conservative Party electoral success. She also stated that the dominance of liberal cosmopolitan mindsets in the British political classes meant these anxieties were all too often dismissed as forms of racism and bigotry.
Home Secretary Priti Patel pledged wholesale reform of the UK’s “broken” immigration system as she unveiled plans for a “fully digital border” within five years.
In a keynote speech on Monday, Ms Patel vowed to deliver a system that works for the “law-abiding majority” and against those who seek to “abuse our hospitality and generous spirit”.
She also launched the US-style Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA), which requires visitors to the UK to obtain an electronic permit before travelling.
This would make the border more secure, with automatic checks allowing the Government to “count people in and count people out” of the country, providing a “far clearer picture of who is here, and whether they should be”, she said, adding: “And we will act when they are not.”