Andy Burnham faces migration revolt as 80 MPs demand PM-in-waiting axes Shabana Mahmood's reforms

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Andy Burnham faces migration revolt as 80 MPs demand PM-in-waiting axes Shabana Mahmood's reforms.

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Nearly 80 Labour MPs have written to Andy Burnham to urge him to water down Shabana Mahmood's migration reforms.In a joint letter to Mr Burnham, the group of backbench Labour MPs warned the Home Secretary's Immigration & Asylum Bill risks "losing progressive voters".Ms Mahmood was forced to stare down the left of the Labour Party over her reforms, including ex-Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner.However, the Home Secretary is now facing a full-blown migration mutiny.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Writing to Mr Burnham, disgruntled Labour MPs wrote: "Targeting a group of migrants that followed the rules, and applying this retrospectively, does not pass the fairness test for a compassionate but firm system."We do not recall being asked on the doorstep to make it harder for migrant workers to settle in the UK."Yet we are expending political capital, huge Home Office resource, and losing progressive voters on an indefinite leave to remain reform, which few really understand or...

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