Exclusive: Keir Starmer Set To Snub Shabana Mahmood's Demand He Sack Mike Tapp

The home secretary called on the PM to dump her junior minister.

Keir Starmer is set to snub Shabana Mahmood’s demand that he sack one of her junior ministers.

The home secretary said Mike Tapp should be axed for allegedly breaching the ministerial code by publicly speaking out against government policy.

Tapp, a junior minister in the Home Office, wrote an article in The Times in which he said migrant care workers should be exempt from tough new immigration rules.

It is understood that Mahmood was unaware that he planned to write the column.

A government source said: “The home secretary has asked the prime minister for Mike Tapp to be sacked for breaching the ministerial........

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