BBC News reports on UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper's latest initiative:

Care workers will no longer be recruited from overseas as part of a crackdown on visas for lower-skilled workers, the home secretary has told the BBC.

Yvette Cooper said "it is time to end that care worker recruitment from abroad" and rules will change this year - instead requiring firms to hire domestically or extend visas of overseas workers already in the UK.

The main reason there is a care crisis in the UK is due to the fact that there are not enough care workers to manage the explosion in long-term care needs and apparently not enough indigenous 'British' people to fill all the vacancies.

So closing the care worker visa seems like shooting yourself in the foot.

Especially as anyone coming into Britain on a visa is at least here legally, so this does nothing to stop the real problem, which is illegal immigration.

Bonkers.