To play devils advocate however are overseas candidates trained to the same or higher level?

Also of note, what is the percentage of minority applicants to be GP’s?

This are important questions that need answering before the race card is played.

The free market that you are talking about is a stagnant puddle in a much larger global market in which there is not an artificially inflated GP income. The world has plenty of well trained English speaking doctors who would be happy to work in the UK, but lots of hurdles are placed to keep them out of the UK when in fact we should be actively importing them en masse.

For example only about 10% of UK medical graduates fail the Royal College of General Practitioners GP exam, but strangely enough nearly two thirds of foreign trained GPs fail it.

I have read in an Independent article that a study showed that not only are white candidates four times more likely to pass
the exam the first time than ethnic minority candidates trained in the UK,
but that they are 14 times more likely than candidates trained overseas.

A free market has open borders, not borders policed by those influenced by vested interests and institutional racism.

Unfortunately we live in a free market of supply and demand, so GP’s wages will only come down when there is more GP’s then demand.

Plenty of British doctors are of a low quality and hurdles that discourage fully competent foreign doctors (individuals who are fluent in English and who would happily work for a lot less) from working here here need to be removed.

Plenty of workers and professionals study long and work hard, there is no justification at all for the inflated wages paid to British GPs or the difficulty that normal people have accessing them nowadays. The country needs many more GPs than at present and realistically to afford more we need to stop paying them over the odds.