Burnham declines to say net migration still too high as Mahmood prepares to unveil tougher settlement rules – UK politics live

Home secretary to make some migrants wait 10 years or more for right to settle in UKAndy Burnham is now on his way to the Commonwealth summit in Antigua. The government plane that is taking him left from Stansted early this morning, but it went to Manchester first, where it stopped to pick up the PM. He is now en route to the Caribbean, where he will arrive this evening after a refuelling stop in Canada.Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, is already ridiculing the indefinite leave to remain (ILR) announcement coming this afternoon. In a post on social media, he claimed that she was surrendering to “the open-borders Labour left”.Later today the government will announce their u-turn on ILR, or Indefinite Leave to Remain.It’s clear Shabana Mahmood has been forced to surrender to Angela Rayner and the open-borders Labour left. She will now allow hundreds of thousands of low-wage and no-wage migrants to stay in the UK forever and claim benefits.The Labour Party is at war with itself over Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR), with Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood losing a fight to the far left of her own party. Tomorrow, she’s expected to cave on plans to even tinker with the ILR numbers. Angela Rayner emerges victorious, with her defence of the Tory-era policies hinging on “fair play” towards foreign nationals.But what about fair play towards the British public? Doesn’t that count for anything anymore? Villages, towns, suburbs, and cities have to deal with the weight and strain of all this. Not only are ordinary Brits never consulted, but this current cabinet doesn’t even have an electoral mandate. It is rightly infuriating to most people who increasingly want net negative migration into Britain. Continue reading...