Shadow Home Secretary

I'd finally just say the term of her style, she clearly outclassed Chris Philp.

A reminder of the difficulties of keeping Chris Philp in his job as Shadow Home Secretary when he was one of the Home Office Ministers at the time of the Boris wave, the biggest ever migration wave to ever hit this country was happening.

And I think it does show, as Tim just said, that the Labour benches were determined to support the Home Secretary today after a difficult few months.

They were all in fine fettle and she gave a commando performance.

So they'd argued that you can't make these changes after people have already arrived here, because that's sort of Moving the goalposts, I suppose.

This softening of the reforms has prompted a predictably, sorry, furious reaction from the Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Philp.

The Home Secretary now proposes to allow every single care worker and their dependents who arrived prior to May 2025, a number running into hundreds of thousands.

to stay in this country, to stay in this country beyond the expiry of their visa, and in the case of 75% of them, to stay permanently, even though she acknowledges that many of them arrived fraudulently.

Cue the leak.

of a voice note that purports to show Orla Mini Hain describing Zia Youssef, Reform UK Shadow Home Secretary, as the P-word.

Now, I do need to clarify that Orla denies that she called Zia Youssef the P-word.

She says she was calling him a geezer and that this voice note has been manipulated.

A further 10 years will be added for those who enter the country by an illegal method, such as by small boat.

Now, she was also very robust with her opposite number, Chris Philp, the Shadow Home Secretary.

And he, in response to her statement, put in, shall we say, a fairly feisty performance.

And of course, all she had to do is say, yeah, but you were there in the Home Office.

we're at at the moment.

Okay.

Wendy Morton, your party supported Shabana Mahmood back in March, but Chris Philp, the Shadow Home Secretary, he really laid into her today.

So I was sitting actually on the back benches this afternoon, and he was in crisp, true form, robust, I think it's fair to say today.

The Home Secretary also set out the government's disqualifying criteria for settlement, including having a criminal record and failing to speak English to a high standard.

The Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Philp, said in response that it took Shabana Mahmood a year to, quote, build her reputation as tough on immigration, but said she just dismantled this reputation in 12 short minutes.

That was how long her statement took to deliver.

And he criticised the change she announced in the social care sector.

I think it depends what you're comparing it to.

If you compare it to the status quo, the current policy, which is the policy under this government and the policy under the previous government, when a lot of the people we're talking about were admitted… then there is a financial saving as a result of the measures because basically people will wait longer to get access to welfare benefits and that will more significantly affect people on lower incomes.

I think where the Shadow Home Secretary is saying that there will be a cost is the fact that people will remain in the UK at all because the Conservative Party and also the Reform Party have proposed more draconian measures that would say that actually some people would not be eligible to get permanent status at all and would in fact have to leave the UK.

A word about the care sector because that has come under particular spotlight today.

Okay.

Wendy Morton, your party supported Shabana Mahmood back in March, but Chris Philp, the Shadow Home Secretary, he really laid into her today.

So I was sitting actually on the back benches this afternoon and he was in crisp, true form, robust, I think it's fair to say today.

But we did we did say a few months ago we would support her.

Ian, I think the Shadow Home

Secretary... 18% is a tiny amount.

The Shadow Home Secretary is a right one to speak.

He was the Immigration Minister when it all went pear-shaped.