Mahmood humiliated! Now her migrant climbdown will cost us £10 billion

In Tuesday’s episode of The Daily T, Camilla Tominey and Tim Stanley discuss the Home Secretary’s climbdown on visas and the missed opportunity that could cost the taxpayer £10bn.

Camilla describes the about-turn as “a climbdown on a supposed crackdown” suggesting that Shabana Mahmood has been “bullied out of her immigration crackdown by the Lefties in Cabinet”.

Tim claims that the “real controversy is not the workers that came, but the dependants”, which he points out the Home Secretary avoided discussing in her address on Monday.

They also discuss whether the announcement means that “Starmerism” is officially dead, and whether there is a Blue-Labour movement within the party.

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Editor: Camilla Tominey

Highlights:

• Camilla and Tim react to Andy Burnham's fall playing cricket in Antigua
• Camilla and Tim discuss Shabana Mahmood's migrant visa climbdown and how it will add £10 billion to the UK's welfare bill

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