Partha Kar: Let’s avoid the trap of division

Last month an outcry erupted over comments by Dido Harding, former head of Test and Trace, who has applied to succeed Simon Stevens as chief executive NHS England. Harding was quoted in a Sunday Times story about her pitch for the role, headlined “Dido Harding: Make less reliant on foreigners.” Gabriel Pogrund, paper’s Whitehall correspondent, wrote: “Baroness Winscombe vowed end England’s reliance foreign doctors nurses if she becomes next . 53, would challenge ‘prevailing orthodoxy’ government that it is better import medical professionals from overseas benefit investment other countries because huge cost training doctor.” Putting aside …