Doctors and Nurses

5.5 million UK employees are foreign-born. There are 1.6 million people who are currently unemployed. Presumably the government is hoping that when they send the foreigners home that Brits will take a second job - maybe we will have to with the economy tanking.

So who is going to look after you when you are whisked to hospital collapsed from overwork?

13.5% nurses and 25% of doctors are non-British. However overseas applicants have dropped by 90% since the referendum and almost every hospital is short  of nurses - there are 24,000 nursing vacancies across the UK. Not to mention the 25,000 NHS workers from overseas who are considering returning home under their own steam.

Maybe Mrs May should have agreed to the amendment to Article 50 promising to respect the rights of EU citizens in Britain, rather than keeping them to use as bargaining counters.

With the precipitous fall in the pound many potential immigrants are deciding to stay home - net migration is at its lowest for three years. Clearly the stay-at-homes are the ones who would have otherwise come to get a job, but it isn't worth their while now. A shame as the taxes they would have paid would have been welcome.

Still, with the Immigrant Skills Charge coming into force next month, it may be that the NHS won't be able to afford overseas staff anyway. At a thousand pounds a pop, that is £3.5 million ripped each year from hospital budgets, plus an annual bill of another £3.7 million for the organisations that train hospital staff.

The NHS already has a projected overspend of nearly £1 billion this financial year. Part of this is paying for the social care the NHS has to provide to make up for care gaps, so maybe the extra £2 billion councils have been promised for social care by Mr Hammond could reduce that. Even so, expect to find your local hospital ever more understaffed and overstretched over the next few years.