It was either this, or stop importing beggar-class migrants, in terms of weighing down the NHS. And we know the UK gov't loves importing additional beggars and the criminally-adjacent. Even when the UK people voted saying "we don't mind if there's some economic damage, just stop importing the criminal beggars", the UK governments, several different ones, all said "you can take anything from us, millions per day, billions in deals, just don't stop sending more criminal beggars to us!"