Jeremy Kyle discusses the latest plans to toughen immigration rules are expected to be massively watered down today after a highly damaging battle within the Labour Party.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's proposals to make low-skilled foreign migrants wait far longer for 'settled' status in Britain have been rewritten after strong opposition from her party's left wing.
Under the proposals, skilled workers would typically have to wait 10 years rather than the current five, but the lowest-paid workers, including care workers, would have to wait 15.
The Home Secretary is now believed to be considering plans to treat care workers more like skilled workers, including doctors, who can “earn” reductions to their ILR wait by working in the public sector.
Meanwhile, Andy Burnham is open to increasing financial assistance, i.e. reparations for Commonwealth countries, to help make amends for Britain’s role in the slave trade.
The PM will consider demands for investment in healthcare and education from African and Caribbean countries. Commonwealth leaders said Mr Burnham had made an “essential first step” towards a reparations deal, after he said he was open to making a formal apology for slavery.
Labour minister Emma Reynolds has been criticised for suggesting that employers are not “working people”. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury, when questioned about those hit by Labour’s economic policies, said she doesn’t think “employers are working people”.
Chancellor John Healey has promised the benefits bill “will come down under Labour” and signalled more “hard decisions” on cuts to public spending, but he has FAILED to say when! Do you believe him?
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