Shabana Mahmood admits her U-turn on settlement for foreign care workers will push up the welfare 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.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 on Tuesday that her softened immigration settlement proposals carry a higher price tag than the original version, after she was compelled to abandon the 15-year residency wait for foreign care workers. Under the revised framework, permanent residency will be delayed for just over 500,000 people, compared with nearly 800,000 under her initial plan. She declined to give a precise cost figure, saying only that the savings would still amount to "billions."
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp called the retreat a "total capitulation" and argued the concessions would leave taxpayers £10bn worse off.
According to multiple reports, the revised rules will make small boat arrivals eligible for indefinite leave to remain.
Nigel Farage called the U-turn 'the beginning of the capitulation' and pledged to revisit migrant citizenships should Reform come to power.
