Mahmood scraps settlement plans for migrant care workers

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has scrapped plans to make foreign care workers already in the UK wait 15 years to qualify for permanent settlement. We hear from the home secretary, a worker from Nepal who’s now facing an uncertain future, and Labour MP Rachael Maskell – who thinks the plans are unfair.

Also in the programme: James Coomarasamy reports on one Republican incumbent’s attempts to show independence from President Trump as campaigning draws to a close ahead of US midterm elections tomorrow. And novelist Hanif Kureishi discusses his latest book, written after an accident meant he’s lost the use of most of his body.