UK minister faces backlash after proposing care worker exemption from 10-year residency rule

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A political controversy has erupted over Home Office minister Mike Tapp's proposal to exclude migrant care workers from the government's plan to retrospectively extend the leave to remain timeframe from 5 to 10 years before they can permanently settle in the UK. Workers rights campaigners have labeled the doubling of the timeframe as "cruel and unconscionable." Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has called on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to sack Tapp over his public opposition to the policy, and has restricted Tapp's ministerial duties. Experts and activists have rallied in support of Tapp's position, arguing that care workers deserve better treatment under immigration rules.

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