Migrant workers become toxic issue
On today's Daily Politics our guest of the day is Robert Winston, the Labour peer and fertility expert.
We'll be discussing dementia. The government's outlining to deal with the disease this morning. It's one of the most pressing problems the UK faces, with the number of sufferers expecting to double to 1.4 million in the next 30 years.
Also today, we'll be looking at the continuing row over foreign workers. The wave of wildcat strikes sweeping the UK shows no sign of abating; if anything they are gathering momentum. Union leaders and employers are aimed at preventing a further escalation of the crisis.
Yesterday afternoon, Business Secretary Peter Mandelson dismissed workers concerns, suggesting the protests were xenophobic. Maybe. But it's also clear that when unemployment shoots up -- as it is now -- migrant workers become a toxic issue. We'll be talking to UKIP and an MEP about the row.
We'll also be looking at genetics: should we be able to screen embryos for cancer genes? And we'll be looking at the art of political photography with the celebrity photographer, Dean Freeman.
That's all that at midday on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳2 -- and afterwards in iPlayer.
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