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Jeal,writerwhoalteredperceptions ofLivingstonein Africa Obituaries,page6sectionInside  \nThe Guardian Friday23October2026  \nA simple pleato Labour:tellthe truth aboutimmigrationGabyHinsliff  \nJournal  \nymum's carer wasuncharacteristically late onemorning.Shedidn't want tosay why at first,but it turnedout she'd found her previousclient-an elderly ladylivingall alone,with no familyto visit-collapsedon the floor,barely  \nalive.It was a lot to copewith for someone onlyintheir early 20s,a reminder of the heavy responsibilitythis job carries.Watching the carers who helped bothmy parentsin theirrespective final weeks taught methatwhile the workitselfmight seem mundane,theemotional andsocialskills needed to doit well-tocoax some sense out ofthe confused,to jolly alongthe lonely,andto soothe the dying,to walk in andout ofunfamiliar houses allday long without quiteknowingwhat you might find-are anything but.  \nYet like so many jobs predominantly done bywomen,care has longbeen relentlessly undervalued.That means lousy pay,little publicrecognition,andnow-at least for the disproportionately large chunkof this workforce who are migrant wokers-thedisorientating realisation that the government cansnap its fingers and all your life plans are upended.  \nUnder the latest attempt by the home secretary,Shabana Mahmood,to ratchet immigration numbersever further down,\"low-skilled\"foreign workerswill now have towait upto 15 years for theright tobecome permanent residents.The new rules wouldbebackdated to 2021to catch what the right dubbedthe\"Boriswave\",that unexpected surge of workerswho came to Britain in the Boris Johnson years-many on health and care visas-and would under theold five-year rule have started qualifyingfor settlementin 2027.Wha has unsettled some of Mahmood'sowncabinetcolleagues is the sense of the state renegingon what was understood to be the deal when thoseworkers came here.Having to be continuouslyemployed for15 yearsinstead offive without a breakmeans in practice that some will have to leave,whileothers wilive in mortal fear oflosing ajob.Agrowingcabinet revolt against Mahmood's reformsis nowbecoming the firstrealchallenge to Andy Burnham'sauthority as prime minister,but also more broadly atest ofwhere he really stands on immigration.  \nThis month'sbudget throws a problem thatgovernments have been trying to ignorefor a decade into sharp relief:kneejerkhostility to foreign workers is costing  \nILLUSTRATION:  \nELEANOR  \nSHAKESPEARE  \nThe Guardian Friday23October 2026  \n\n| 2  \u003Cbr>A simple pleato Labour:tell  \u003Cbr>the truth about immigration  \u003Cbr>Gaby Hinsliff  \u003Cbr>←Continuedfromfront   | The  \u003Cbr>Guardian  \u003Cbr>Founded1821Independentlyownedbythe Scott TrustN⁹56,045  \u003Cbr>Comment isfree...butfactsaresacred'CPScott   |\n| --- | --- |\n| Britain dear,and notjust because public  \u003Cbr>services would fall apartwithout them.  \u003Cbr>Last month,the Institute for Fiscal Studies  \u003Cbr>warned that falling immigration would mean falling  \u003Cbr>tax revenues,shrinking John Healey's headroom at  \u003Cbr>the budget by about E4bn.So much for the rightwing  \u003Cbr>myth that migrants are a drain on their host country:  \u003Cbr>ifanything,they've been bailing Britain out.  \u003Cbr>It's no just taxes,either.Immigrants pay a  \u003Cbr>surcharge on topfor the right touse the NHSifneeded  \u003Cbr>while they're here,which is now raising E2.5bn a  \u003Cbr>year,according to new research from the Nuffield  \u003Cbr>Trust.It seems all those pesky liberals who argued  \u003Cbr>that migrants are generally healthierthan the average  \u003Cbr>Briton-and therefore less likely to need aGP-were  \u003Cbr>righ afterall:the trust estimates that migrants are  \u003Cbr>on average payingin60%more insurcharge per  \u003Cbr>year than they take outin healthcare services,a  \u003Cbr>handy little revenue streamtha forsome reason  \u003Cbr>we nevertalkabout.But immigration crackdowns  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