Mahmood admits her care-worker settlement U-turn will not save the £10bn she forecast and refuses to name the cost
Nigel Farage, who vowed to rescind citizenship grants that do not add value to Britain, as Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood also quietly dropped plans to bar newly settled migrants from claiming benefits.Andy Burnham (left), Mayor of Greater Manchester, with Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner — whose support for the care-worker climbdown means 282,000 of the 1.9 million migrants due to settle by 2030 will face no extra delay.Mahmood's climbdown will reduce the number of people facing delayed settlement to just over 500,000, well down from nearly 800,000 under her original plans.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood acknowledged that her revised immigration plan will increase the welfare bill after a Labour backbench rebellion forced her to reduce the qualifying wait for foreign care workers from 15 years to five. She declined to say what the change would cost, stating only that savings would remain "in the billions" — a step back from her earlier £10bn forecast. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp called it "a total capitulation" that would leave taxpayers £10bn worse off.
The number of people facing a delayed route to permanent residency has dropped to just over 500,000, compared with nearly 800,000 under the original proposals.
Farage described the climbdown as 'the beginning of the capitulation' and pledged to review every migrant citizenship granted under the scheme should Reform come to power.
Charities receiving more than £1bn in taxpayer funding had lobbied the Home Office to water down the original rules, it has emerged.
