Crazy

The prime minister is cutting off her nose to spite her face.  The Independent reports:

Fresh questions have been raised over Theresa May’s hardline stance on immigration after reports emerged suggesting she had intervened to stop doctors from overseas coming to the UK.

The prime minister is said to have overruled other cabinet ministers arguing that more foreign doctors were desperately needed to help meet staff shortages in the NHS.

Despite pressure from the home secretary, health secretary and business secretary, Ms May is said to have refused to budge on rules that restrict the number of visas given to specialist workers from overseas.

Foreign doctors are not taking the jobs of British doctors and their arrival would obviously be in the interests of NHS patients waiting on operations or on GP appointments.  But Theresa May would rather see people suffer than breach a notional, ill-defined policy of keeping out the foreigners.