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This week’s most read: Immigration, the death of Lucy Meadows and Boris the clown
The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
The Week in Washington: Supreme Court hears gay marriage cases, Obama backs senators to reach immigration deal and more
Larry Smith gives his weekly US politics round up.
Look Left – Immigrants coming over here paying for our pensions, Boris and David
James Bloodworth looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.
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Ending the race to the bottom on immigration
Over the last five days the leaders of three political parties have made speeches about immigration. Cameron’s latest speech suggests that there is now a race to the bottom on immigration.
Don’t blame NHS strain on foreigners: try other government departments first
Before rushing to blame foreign visitors for putting a strain on the health service with some rather dubious statistics, perhaps the prime minister and his health secretary would do well to examine the policies of other departments of government that are both costing the NHS money and preventing NHS staff from doing what they are qualified to do.