The Conservatives have dumped Theresa May’s 100,000 goal for net immigration. Home Secretary Priti Patel says the new plan will bring overall immigration down but give skilled workers preference under a points-based system and expert recommendations. Evening Standard associate editor Julian Glover joins The Leader podcast to explain why this is ‘impossible’.
The RMT have announced another 24-hour strike, this time on the Victoria line - one of London’s busiest - on the 27th and 28th November. The Leader explains why we think the union is being “childish”.
The Science Museum is devoting its first-floor galleries to telling the history of medicine. Exhibits include the first MRI scanner, a Victorian pharmacy and a padded cell. Evening Standard Arts correspondent Robert Dex joins the podcast to tell us more.
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