Minister says Mahmood’s migration policy will ‘prolong integration’

Miatta Fahnbulleh, the secretary of state for energy security and net zero, said the debate around immigration had become ‘increasingly depressing and toxic’. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

The energy secretary, Miatta Fahnbulleh, appears to have criticised Shabana Mahmood’s migration policy in a post on her constituency website, in which she suggested she had concerns that a longer settlement process could affect integration.

Fahnbulleh has since removed the critique, which appeared in a write-up of a community meeting in Peckham, her south London constituency, in September, saying it was not a true representation of her views.