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Increasing leave to remain timeframe for UK care workers ‘cruel’, say campaigners
UK NewsPolitics•June 29, 2026 at 6:00 AMNational

Increasing leave to remain timeframe for UK care workers ‘cruel’, say campaigners

By Jessica Murray Social affairs correspondent•The Guardian - UK News

Experts and activists back Mike Tapp’s proposal for care worker exclusion that led to row with Shabana MahmoodExtending the leave to remain timeframe for care workers to 15 years is “cruel and unconscionable”, according to workers rights campaigners who back a Home Office minister’s proposal to exclude the cohort from the government’s immigration plans.Mike Tapp is at the centre of a political row with the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, after writing an article in which he said migrant care workers should be excluded from plans to retrospectively change the length of time people must work before they can permanently settle in the UK. Continue reading...

Experts and activists back Mike Tapp’s proposal for care worker exclusion that led to row with Shabana Mahmood

Extending the leave to remain timeframe for care workers to 15 years is “cruel and unconscionable”, according to workers rights campaigners who back a Home Office minister’s proposal to exclude the cohort from the government’s immigration plans.

Mike Tapp is at the centre of a political row with the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, after writing an article in which he said migrant care workers should be excluded from plans to retrospectively change the length of time people must work before they can permanently settle in the UK.

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