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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jessica Elgot and Rowena Mason

Ministers working with Labour backbenchers to temper Mahmood immigration plans

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood arriving at Downing Street for Cabinet meeting
Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, has led the government’s attempts to toughen its approach on immigration. Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing/Getty Images

A number of ministers concerned about Shabana Mahmood’s immigration changes are working behind the scenes with backbenchers to secure more exemptions, the Guardian has learned.

Keir Starmer is consulting on the proposed changes, which would make it harder to achieve settled status in the UK, and is under pressure from within his own party to say the measures should not apply to people who have already entered the UK.

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