Mahmood's 'Duty of care' or 'climbdown' and 'The new cold war'Published2 minutes agoImage caption, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's revision of settlement plans for migrant care workers features prominently in Tuesday's papers. Mahmood had planned to make foreign care workers already in the UK wait 15 years to qualify for permanent settlement. Instead she has "softened plans" to help the struggling sector, the Daily Mirror reports. Image caption, The i Paper headlines on Mahmood's "U-turn" to "exempt 280,000 people" by allowing care workers already in the country to wait five years, instead of 15 years, to apply for indefinite leave to remain. But anyone "seeking settled status needs four 'non negotiables", including a spotless criminal record, the paper explains. Image caption, The Daily Mail headlines on "Mahmood's £10 billion migrant climbdown", describing it as the home secretary abandoning "tougher residency rules after backbench revolt". Meanwhile, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are pictured as they "move into new Cotswolds home", the paper says. Image caption, The Daily Express describes the home secretary's announcement as a Labour "cave in" over migrant settlement…
The Papers: Mahmood's 'Duty of care' or 'climbdown' and 'The new cold war'
In short
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood softened proposed settlement rules for existing overseas care workers following widespread political backlash, abandoning a proposed 15-year wait time. Although critics previously highlighted warnings of a potential £10 billion cost to taxpayers, applicants will now access the five-year route provided they satisfy four mandatory requirements, including a clean criminal record. Meanwhile, other classes of migrants could still see their settlement timelines retrospectively lengthened to a decade. Across other sectors, official warnings have flagged rampant drone-delivered narcotics inside domestic prisons and widespread European supermarket cyber-attacks that sp…
Key points
- The Home Secretary adjusted settlement timelines after facing substantial opposition from…: The Home Secretary adjusted settlement timelines after facing substantial opposition from cabinet colleagues, backbenchers, and trade unions.
- Certain groups of migrants outside the care sector may still face retrospective rule chan…: Certain groups of migrants outside the care sector may still face retrospective rule changes that prolong their wait to ten years.
- Critical vulnerabilities continue to challenge domestic institutions, ranging from cyber-…: Critical vulnerabilities continue to challenge domestic institutions, ranging from cyber-attacks on food supply chains to drone-enabled prison drug smuggling.