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

Experts and activists back Mike Tapp’s proposal for care worker exclusion that led to row with Shabana Mahmood Doubling the leave to remain timeframe for care workers to 10 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 car...

By Jessica Murray Social affairs correspondent