Today I challenged Yvette Cooper to issue an impact assessment setting out what the consequences will be of stopping overseas care worker visas this year The Home Secretary avoided the question The government must consider the impacts on the sick, the frail and the elderly

@YvetteCooperMP Stop plundering and exploiting poorer countries labour. Dragging them half way across the world. 9M not working . Professionalise by bringing under NHS services, offer accredited year long training for our own and pay a decent wage.

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@YvetteCooperMP With projections showing a need for an additional 540k care workers by 2040, reliance on overseas recruitment is not sustainable. The govt must urgently address years of underfunding, raise pay, and invest in improving job quality to attract and retain more British workers.

@YvetteCooperMP Come on @UKLabour @Keir_Starmer this is not good enough. I have viewed you as a refreshing change after 14 years of #SelfServative rule but this pandering to Farage et all is a disgrace, unworkable and just totally wrong. Putin must be delighted 👎

@YvetteCooperMP It can't be a massive pool then can it because there is 131,000 vacancies? Great question. Asked by yourself to yvette cooper

@YvetteCooperMP since 2000 we’ve had 6.6 million people under immigration yet the care sector still can’t fill the jobs, that says their is something wrong with the job if local & immigration workers don’t take the jobs, so stop using the excuse of immigration is needed & fix the actual job

@YvetteCooperMP Hey Alison, while you frantically send out your pathetic virtue signals, trying desperately to appear saintly, haven't you forgotten something? While helping the poor oppressed economic migrants come here, you're depriving the sick, frail and elderly in the country they came from

@YvetteCooperMP They won’t they never do!

@YvetteCooperMP Yesterday it was reported 500 new workers came in by boat. Thousands more waiting for opportunities in hotels. The crisis can be averted by putting them in care homes and by going into private homes to wash dress and feed people. Is that what you want?

@YvetteCooperMP Net zero immigration for 5 years!

@YvetteCooperMP Ah, I see your mistake. You used a business term, “impact assessment”!