Shabana Mahmood refuses to say how much her care worker settlement U-turn will cost amid warnings of a £10bn bill
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.
Four in five respondents to the Home Office's own consultation on tougher settlement rules were not British citizens, with 73 per cent being current visa holders — figures that handed shadow home secretary Chris Philp the ammunition to accuse Mahmood of rolling over because migrants told her to.
Philp branded the climbdown 'total capitulation', warning fraudulent care workers would now be allowed to stay permanently.
Nigel Farage called it 'the beginning of the capitulation', vowing Reform would review every citizenship granted under the scheme.
Home Secretary Mahmood sparked further alarm by warning of 'significant issues' with free movement, even as PM Burnham urged ministers to stay silent on EU re-entry.
