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A dispute inside the Home Office has intensified after Shabana Mahmood sought to restrict Mike Tapp’s access to papers and called for him to be removed from his post as migration minister.
The row followed an article by Tapp in The Times on settlement rights for migrant care workers. The Guardian reported that Mahmood viewed the intervention as unauthorised and as an attempt to claim work that was being developed by her department.
Downing Street has said Keir Starmer is taking advice on whether ministerial rules were breached. The episode comes during the transition period before an expected Burnham premiership and has added to questions about discipline inside the outgoing Government.