Ministers working with Labour backbenchers to temper Mahmood immigration plans

Exclusive: Starmer urged to go further with exemptions if he wants to avoid widespread anger from his own MPs

A number of ministers concerned about Shabana Mahmood's immigration changes are working behind the scenes with backbenchers to secure more exemptions, the Guardian has learned.

Keir Starmer is consulting on the proposed changes, which would make it harder to achieve settled status in the UK, and is under pressure from within his own party to say the measures should not apply to people who have already entered the UK.