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Mahmood scraps settlement plans for migrant care workers

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Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has scrapped plans to make foreign care workers already in the UK wait 15 years to qualify for permanent settlement. We hear from the home secretary, a worker from Nepal who’s now facing an uncertain future, and Labour MP Rachael Maskell – who thinks the plans are unfair.

Also in the programme: James Coomarasamy reports on one Republican incumbent’s attempts to show independence from President Trump as campaigning draws to a close ahead of US midterm elections tomorrow. And novelist Hanif Kureishi discusses his latest book, written after an accident meant he’s lost the use of most of his body.
2 Nov 5PM English United Kingdom TV & Film

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