Cabinet civil conflict over plan handy out 1000's of visas for India commerce deal

Allies of Home Secretary Suella Braverman have stated she is "a lone voice in the Cabinet" resisting plans to open the doorways to 1000's extra visas being issued to India in change for a piece deal.

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Senior Tory MPs have stated that the difficulty threatens to tear Rishi Sunak's fragile authorities aside subsequent week when MPs return to Parliament on Monday.

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It is known that the influential rightwing Common Sense Group based by former minister Sir John Hayes is about to ship a letter to the Prime Minister warning that its membership of greater than 50 Conservative MPs will oppose any strikes to present India entry to 1000's extra visas.

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One Common Sense member has made it clear to Express.co.uk that "patience is worn out" on migration "both legal and illegal" with file numbers of individuals getting into the nation.

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"We have been presupposed to take again management of our borders with Brexit," the MP famous.

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But extra much more damaging is a threatened cut up within the Cabinet over the difficulty.

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According to at least one MP, Ms Braverman, the Home Secretary, is "leading the resistance to the plan...but is increasingly a lone voice".

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The MP added: "She is up against it because there are so many liberal wets in the Cabinet."

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In specific, Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch has been accused of "capitulating to India's demands" on visas "and not being robust in her negotiations".

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It is known that MPs who backed her in final yr's management contest have warned "she is finished" with reference to a different management bid if she doesn't have a change of coronary heart.

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The MP famous: "[Chancellor Jeremy] Hunt of course is very much in favour of more migration so he is happy with the plan.

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"He has the wrong-headed view that extra migration equals extra financial progress, which is nonsense in fact."

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His allies include Education Secretary Gillian Keegan who has been pushing increased numbers of student visas and opposing attempts for visas not to be granted to foreign student's families.

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Another MP said: "The Home Secretary is on the aspect of nearly all of the social gathering and voters so we actually have to make our voices heard."

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This is not the first time Ms Braverman would have been in a tussle over increased work visas.

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According to friends, when she resigned from Liz Truss' short-lived government it was because Ms Truss had wanted to allow thousands of extra work visas for India in exchange for "a rotten commerce deal".

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The problems came to a head when it emerged Ms Braverman had attempted to share a document with another MP Sir John Hayes but accidentally sent it to the office of a different Parliamentarian.

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As one ally of Ms Braverman put it: "Truss was going to open the floodgates to migration from India however we weren't even getting tariffs faraway from whisky."

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An MP noted: "What is being proposed now is just not a lot totally different. We can't simply give India all the pieces it desires for little or no in return, particularly on an immotive difficulty like migration."

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India is pushing for extra pupil visas and work visas for carers and nurses.

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