Published2 November 2026
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's revision of settlement plans for migrant care workers features prominently in Tuesday's papers. Mahmood had planned to make foreign care workers already in the UK wait 15 years to qualify for permanent settlement. Instead she has "softened plans" to help the struggling sector, the Daily Mirror reports.
The i Paper headlines on Mahmood's "U-turn" to "exempt 280,000 people" by allowing care workers already in the country to wait five years, instead of 15 years, to apply for indefinite leave to remain. But anyone "seeking settled status needs four 'non negotiables", including a spotless criminal record, the paper explains.
The Daily Mail headlines on "Mahmood's £10 billion migrant climbdown", describing it as the home secretary abandoning "tougher residency rules after backbench revolt". Meanwhile, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are pictured as they "move into new Cotswolds home", the paper says.
The Daily Express describes the home secretary's announcement as a Labour "cave in" over migrant settlement rights in the UK. The move comes after "furious backlash from her own cabinet colleagues and trade union barons", the paper says.
The home secretary has "watered down" her migration policy, the Daily Telegraph says. Shabana Mahmoo's move comes despite her previously warning that doing so risked costing the taxpayer £10bn the paper says.
The Guardian says Shabana Mahmood has "rowed back" on her "most hardline plans" for migrant care workers. The paper notes that MPs were warned by the home secretary that some migrants would still face "retrospective rule changes to make them wait a decade" before granting them leave to remain, the paper reports.
"Hundreds of thousands of foreign care workers and their families will be spared" as a result of Shabana Mahmood's "back down on curbs to immigration", the Times reports. The paper quotes government sources saying the reforms were still "very significant" and a "total transformation" of the system.
A cyber-attack targeting dozens of supermarkets across several European countries has put Britain on high alert, Metro reports under the headline "The new cold war". Huge amounts of food has been thrown away after store freezers were reportedly turned up to as high as 50C (122F), the paper says.
The Sun similarly headlines on "The cold war", and points to the UK being on alert as "hackers heat up supermarket fridges across Europe". Elsewhere on the page, the I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! lineup is revealed.
Petrol prices are predicted to hit a record high in the US ahead of the midterm elections, the Financial Times reports. As per a nationwide survey from the FT, nearly 70% of voters "disapprove of how Trump has handled inflation and the cost of living", the paper says.
The Independent leads on an exclusive into a crisis in UK jails following a warning from a prisons inspector. "Inmates languish in bed, high on drone-delivered drugs", it says.
And English footballer Jude Bellingham is pictured lounging in underwear for an ad campaign at the top of the Daily Star. Meanwhile, former England football star Wayne Rooney has been tipped to win the upcoming season of I'm A Celeb, the paper reports.
"The new Cold War", is how the Metro describes the sabotage of supermarket freezers, external across Europe. The paper says "stunned" staff turned up for morning shifts to see floors flooded and tonnes of frozen food ruined. The Financial Times reports that freezers in shops across Sweden, external "were turned up as high as 55 Celsius". According to the Sun, the UK is now "on alert, external" with "fears of a similar attack" on Britain.
The prospect of a formal apology from the UK for its role in the slave trade has led the Daily Express editorial, external to call for the prime minister to learn "when to put a sock in it". The paper says Andy Burnham's "unwise intervention" has made the King's job at the Commonwealth heads of government meeting "more difficult". The Daily Mirror's Darren Lewis writes that Burnham, external is "right to be open" on the issue, but the Daily Mail's leader says its "yet another example" of the PM's "pathological inability to say no".
According to the Sun, the prime minister also "flew into a major storm" over his travel arrangements to Antigua for the Commonwealth meeting. A government aircraft took off from Stansted with officials on board before being diverted to Manchester to pick up Andy Burnham and his wife. The Conservatives say the jet was "the world's most expensive Uber". Downing Street says the diversion was value for money.
"America's crossroads" is how the i Paper tees up the US midterm elections. The Guardian calls them a "referendum" on Donald Trump's second presidency and "a chance for opponents to rein in his untrammelled power". The Daily Mirror offers its readers a prediction – that the president's Republican party are "all set for a trumping".
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