PM in storm over UK citizen denied cancer treatment

THERESA May was labelled callous for allegedly failing to help a Windrush migrant secure radiotherapy to fight prostrate cancer.

Hospital chiefs asked Albert Thompson, 63, who arrived from the Caribbean as a child with his parents in 1973, to pay £54,000 for treatment in March. In heated Commons exchanges, Mrs May insisted Mr Thompson ‘would be receiving the treatment that he needs’ at the Royal Marsden Hospital in Chelsea. But Mr Thompson, who does not want to give his real name for legal reasons, said he had not yet received official confirmation. He said: ‘No one has gotten in touch with me yet to tell me about anything regarding my treatment.’

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn used Prime Minister’s Questions to highlight his case. His MP, Chuka Umunna, said he believed Mrs May had misled the Commons. He said: ‘If there are any plans that have been made for him to get this treatment, then he has not been informed of it.’

It is understood that Mr Thompson’s legal advisers are still putting together the documents required by the Home Office to prove he is in the UK legally, a process he began in 2008. A Royal Marsden spokesman said: ‘Mr Thompson has been continuing on treatment by his GP under the direction of his cancer specialist.’