Starmer Rejects Home Secretary's Demand to Sack Immigration Minister Over Unauthorised Article
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Kevin Schofield
Summary
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has rejected Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's demand to sack Immigration Minister Mike Tapp. Tapp wrote an article in The Times without Mahmood's permission, appearing to break with government policy on migrant care worker immigration rules. Mahmood accused Tapp of breaching the ministerial code and trying to take credit for her ideas, but Starmer only reprimanded him rather than firing him.
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bskyStarmer Rejects Home Secretary's Demand to Sack Immigration Minister Over Unauthorised Articlehuffingtonpost.co.ukKey quotes
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The home secretary had called on the prime minister to dump immigration minister Mike Tapp after he wrote an article in The Times without her permission.
In it, he appeared to break with government policy by saying migrant care workers should be exempt from tough new immigration rules.
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