Britain's Health Secretary Wes Streeting has threatened to deny healthcare to "racists" after a pair of nurses from the Philippines were allegedly attacked with rocks while traveling to work in a taxi in Sunderland, England, during anti-mass migration protests.

Streeting said there was "zero tolerance" for intimidation, harassment, or racist abuse toward National Health Service (NHS) employees.

"People who are abusing NHS staff can be turned away, and should be turned away, if that is the way that they are treating our staff," he insisted.

He went on to claim Britain is "lucky" to have immigrants come from abroad working for the NHS -- although hundreds of thousands of British nursing course applicants have been turned away in favor of importing immigrants, suggesting the state healthcare provider's dependence on foreign staff is a matter of choice rather than necessity.

This is not the first time health officials have said they would deny alleged racists healthcare. In 2019, the North Bristol NHS Trust said it would withdraw treatment from those who engaged in racist or sexist language or behavior.

With anti-mass migration protests are expected to continue across Britain this week, Labour Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has promised to crack down on those taking part, as well as those supporting the protests online.

Director of Public Prosecutions Stephen Parkinson has even threatened that the British government will look to extradite people from overseas if they support the anti-mass migration protests.