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Mahmood's 15-year migrant settlement crackdown faces a cabinet revolt after the Energy Secretary refused 16 times to back it

Miatta Fahnbulleh, the Energy Secretary who has warned Shabana Mahmood's plan to extend the migrant settlement wait to 15 years risks undermining community cohesion.
Miatta Fahnbulleh, the Energy Secretary who has warned Shabana Mahmood's plan to extend the migrant settlement wait to 15 years risks undermining community cohesion.
Shabana Mahmood, whose plan to extend the migrant settlement wait to 15 years faces reported opposition from around 100 Labour MPs, with legislation expected within a month.
Shabana Mahmood, whose plan to extend the migrant settlement wait to 15 years faces reported opposition from around 100 Labour MPs, with legislation expected within a month.

Miatta Fahnbulleh snapped 'Don't put words in my mouth' at Sky's Sophy Ridge when pressed on Shabana Mahmood's plan. She had attacked the policy in a now-deleted post on her Peckham constituency website. Andy Burnham is now considering exempting care workers from the longer wait. Separately, talks between Mahmood and union Unison collapsed after she refused to let a migrant care worker attend.

Mahmood wants foreign nationals to wait 15 years for indefinite leave to remain, not five.

Dozens of Labour MPs oppose the changes, which would be backdated to 2021.

Fahnbulleh's deleted post warned the plan would prolong 'the process of building cohesion'.

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