New divisions have emerged in Andy Burnham’s Cabinet over plans to toughen the rules for more than a million migrants.
Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh, seen as a rising star within the Labour Government, attacked the Home Office’s proposals to make immigrants wait years longer for ‘settled’ status.
Her criticism of Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s proposals come after another member of Mr Burnham’s Cabinet, Angela Rayner, described them in March as ‘un-British’ and ‘wrong’.
Peckham MP Ms Fahnbulleh wrote in an article on her constituency website: ‘If we continually prolong the time people have to wait for settlement, we can also prolong the process
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