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Shabana Mahmood is expected to water down her migrant settlement crackdown today after a revolt by Labour's left

Shabana Mahmood, whose original blueprint would have seen migrants claiming benefits wait up to 15 years for indefinite leave to remain.
Shabana Mahmood, whose original blueprint would have seen migrants claiming benefits wait up to 15 years for indefinite leave to remain.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is set to reveal a heavily diluted version of her immigration settlement reforms in a Commons statement on Monday afternoon, backing down on her flagship plan to make low-skilled migrants wait up to ten years for indefinite leave to remain. Care workers already in the UK are expected to be exempted from the harshest provisions, with overseas social care recruitment having plunged by more than 90 per cent compared with three years ago. Mahmood herself warned months ago that watering down the plan would cost taxpayers £10 billion and be 'an affront to the idea of fairness within our society'.

Angela Rayner — now back in the Cabinet under Andy Burnham — attacked the original proposals as 'un-British', and Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh also refused to back them.

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp accused Mahmood of being 'forced to surrender to Angela Rayner and the open-borders Labour left'.

Under the original blueprint, the settlement wait would have doubled to a baseline of ten years, rising to 15 for those who claimed benefits.

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