Keir Starmer and the home secretary debated the future of the minister

A row has broken out between Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer over the future of Immigration Minister Mike Tapp.

He had a tap. Written for the Times newspaper, External Calling for foreign care workers to be exempt from Mahmoud’s plans to change visa rules for migrants already living in the UK.

Mahmoud, who first found out about this, learned that the newspaper had called her team and believes Tapp should be fired for writing the article, which is a violation of the ministerial code.

But Downing Street is making it known that TAP will remain in post and there are no plans to remove it.

Tapp was reached out for comment.

“I strongly believe that people who have come to the UK on a care worker visa who have played by the rules and made a genuine contribution to our care system should not have to wait long to apply for settlement,” Tapp wrote in his post.

“I am working hard to solve this problem,” he added.

A Home Office source told the BBC after the article was published late on Thursday: “Mike Tapp is expected to be sacked for breaking ministerial rules.

“He took the ideas that the Home Secretary and her team were working on and made it his point to try to get a job in the new administration.”

Journalists pointed to an article in the ministerial law that says, “The principle of shared responsibility states that when ministers come to a decision, they should express their opinions clearly, expecting to be able to debate independently as a united arm.”

Accordingly, the Home Secretary believes Tapp should be fired.

But No. 10 refuses to fire him.

Last month, the BBC and others reported that Mahmoud had told the Prime Minister privately that he planned to leave Downing Street.

Tapp has been a staunch public defender of Sir Kiir until he announced his resignation plans on Monday.

Earlier, before this debate broke out in public, the Prime Minister’s official spokesperson said, “The Prime Minister and all the ministers will remain in office, and the normal work of the government will continue.”

The government is going to make deep reforms to the immigration system.

The Immigration and Asylum Bill, which aims to increase forced deportations of asylum seekers, is expected to go before the House of Commons next Tuesday and is likely to face strong opposition from some Labor MPs.

Ministers want to double the time it takes for most immigrants to qualify for permanent residency from five to 10 years.

Under the proposal, people on health and social care visas would stay for 15 years, and those on benefits based on 12 months would have to wait 20 years.

Mahmoud defended the plans, saying the “unprecedented” number of people entering the UK required a response from the government.

But dozens of Labor MPs have opposed the plans, branding the backwards approach “un-British” and “moving the goalposts”.

Following the resignation of Mahmud Sir Kiir, the next prime minister will seek to carry out reforms.

Last month, Labor leader and prime ministerial hopeful Andy Burnham told the BBC he “broadly supports” Mahmud’s proposals.