The prime minister says that current inefficiencies in the system will be tackled first, as he reveals final recommendations will be out by summer 2027Andy Burnham is speaking now.In a reference to how he started campaing for...
Read MoreExperts and activists back Mike Tapp’s proposal for care worker exclusion that led to row with Shabana MahmoodDoubling the leave to remain timeframe for care workers to 10 years is “cruel and unconscionable”, according to...
Read MoreFigures raise questions over ministers’ plans to raise qualifying period for settled status from five years to 10Higher-earning immigrants are less likely to remain in the UK long-term and could be further deterred from staying...
Read MoreCampaign is said to be first time Labour-affiliated Unison is lobbying en masse against a key party policyMigrant workers and the UK’s largest union will carry out a mass leafleting campaign in Shabana Mahmood’s Birmingham...
Read MoreExclusive: Analysis of government figures indicates public finances will gain £600m not £10bn if migrants’ access to benefits is reducedShabana Mahmood’s migration changes are expected to save just £600m – about 6% of the £10bn...
Read MoreExclusive: Most people in charity’s study say they worry about being separated from relatives under Mahmood plansFamilies of nurses and carers have said they fear being torn apart under an immigration crackdown condemned as “an...
Read MorePM says Reform’s migration plan makes it ‘enemy of national renewal’, while Farage accuses Labour of endangering his party’s politicians and activists with its languageWes Streeting, the health secretary, has said that Tony...
Read MoreExclusive: Wes Streeting to put £500m behind initial rise but unions say ‘substantially more’ investment will be neededCare workers in England are to receive a substantial pay increase from 2028 after the creation of a new body...
Read MoreAn ageing population, a funding squeeze and a recruitment crisis have taken England’s adult social care system to breaking point. In this episode, recorded and first published in March, John Harris visited Greater Manchester to...
Read MoreCampaigners says former health secretary’s submission was ‘full of excuses and completely devoid of accountability’Bereaved families have said Matt Hancock’s evidence to the Covid inquiry “was full of excuses and completely...
Read MoreEx-health secretary tells inquiry policy to free up hospital beds in early days of pandemic was ‘least worst decision’Discharging untested patients from hospitals to care homes during the Covid pandemic was the “least worst...
Read MoreExclusive: Number of people receiving subsidised care has fallen far more quickly than the country’s disability rate, analysis findsNearly 100,000 adults have been denied government-funded social care because of a decade’s worth...
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