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    As the government prepares to publish a long-term plan for the health service, the Nuffield Trust, King’s Fund and Health Foundation identified a current shortfall of more than 100,000 staff across NHS trusts. They estimate that the gap between the number of staff needed and the number available could reach almost 250,000 by 2030. If the emerging trend of staff leaving the workforce early continues and the pipeline of newly trained staff and international recruits does not rise sufficiently, this number could be more than 350,000 by 2030, the think-tanks added. The blueprint for how the NHS will spend an additional £20.5bn a year by 2023-4, expected to be published within weeks, must be clearly linked to a strategy to address the workforce crisis, otherwise it will ...

    Theresa May looks certain to face a vote of no confidence after her Brexit deal was rejected out of hand by Eurosceptics. If she loses the Tory Party will launch a leadership contest to replace her a process that will likely take weeks with just months until Brexit Day. These are some of the leading contenders to replace her: Dominic Raab Newly installed as Brexit Secretary, Dominic Raab (pictured in Downing Street on Tuesday) is trying to negotiate Theresa May's Brexit deal How did they vote on Brexit?  Leave, with a second tier role campaigning for Vote Leave. What is their view now?  Mr Raab was installed as Brexit Secretary to deliver the Chequers plan but sensationally resigned today saying the deal is not good enough. What are their chances?   Being ...

    Theresa May’s premiership has been declared dead before. After her election losses last year, the British Prime Minister appeared to be on the brink of resigning. As she left 10 Downing Street on Thursday morning, members of her own party once again wondered: How long can she last? In the early morning hours, several British ministers resigned over May’s deal to leave the European Union, which was released on Wednesday. Theresa May likely expected some resignations, but one came unexpectedly: Dominic Raab, her second Brexit minister. With the official who negotiated May’s Brexit deal writing that he “cannot support the proposed deal,” the British government was suddenly thrown into jeopardy. May has come under attack from both sides of the political spectrum. Staun...

    Leading Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg submitted a letter of no confidence in the Prime Minister and several high-profile ministers including Dominic Raab and Esther McVey quit in protest at the Brexit plans. The embattled Prime Minister was briefing MPs in the House of Commons on the draft deal on Thursday morning amid rumours that the number of letters submitted by Tory MPs to the 1922 committee was nearing the 48 needed to trigger a confidence vote. Mrs May is facing a battle to get the deal, which was passed by Cabinet on Wednesday night, through Parliament with Brexiteer Conservative MPs, Remainers, the Labour party and the DUP all saying they will vote down the plan. She has been accused of breaking promises and handing control back to Brussels.

    Leaving the European Union without a transitional trade deal would cost Britain about 6 percent of GDP -- roughly four years of economic growth compared with staying in the bloc, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday. The IMF, which warned of the costs of Brexit before Britons voted to leave in June 2016, said securing a trade deal would roughly halve the economic damage from trade barriers and reduced foreign investment and immigration. Directors emphasised the importance of a timely agreement with the EU, accompanied by an implementation period to avoid a cliff-edge exit in March 2019 and to allow firms and workers time to adjust to the new relationship, the IMF said. Two months ago, IMF managing director Christine Lagarde said she expected the world'...

    Tiroude and Gislyne are Haitians by birth and migrants by necessity. The couple’s 18-month-old daughter, however, was born in Fort Lauderdale, and as an American by birth she is part of a growing number of US citizens seeking refuge in Canada. In 2017, some 2,550 US citizens applied for asylum in Canada – an increase of more than sixfold from 2016 and the largest such number since at least 1994, according to data from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. Americans were the third largest contingent of asylum seekers in 2017, after Haitians and Nigerians. The vast majority are children born to Haitian parents, according to experts. Most of the Americans applying for refugee status are the children of non-residents, says Stéphane Handfield, a Montreal-based ...

    Peter Bone today led Tory outrage at Theresa May's Brexit deal saying it does not deliver the Brexit people voted for. The Brexiteer MP confronted the Prime Minister to her face with a damning assessment of the deal her Cabinet will decide on this afternoon. Mr Bone MP told Theresa May during Prime Minister's Questions: Is the Prime Minister aware that if reports are accurate you are not delivering the Brexit people voted for and today you will lose the support of many Conservative MPs and millions of voters across the country. The Tory had MP had previously been supportive of May's negotiations with the EU and said she could be the Queen of Brexit. It comes as dozens of hard Brexiteer Tories from the European Research Group prepare to vote against the deal in the...