A day of inaction will be marked on St George’s Day, 23 April, to celebrate migration in the face of increasingly rightwing rhetoric in England.
The national Facebook campaign encourages anyone who was not born in England, or whose close relatives were foreign-born, to take a day off work to make it crystal clear just how big a contribution they make to the nation. Let’s hope few people will require medical attention on the day: 30 per cent of all NHS professionals were born overseas.
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