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Tories ‘sleepwalking into another Windrush,’ says Sadiq Khan

The mayor of London has accused the government of “sleepwalking into another Windrush scandal” after the number of EU citizens applying to live and work in the UK after Brexit fell.

Sadiq Khan said millions of EU citizens living in the UK were “once again facing increased uncertainty about their future,” adding that it was “completely unacceptable” that nearly a million were yet to apply for the EU Settlement Scheme.

The Home Office said it received 142,300 applications for the scheme in November, compared to more than half a million submitted in the previous month.

This takes the total number received by the end of November to almost 2.6 million  Overall, the number of applications finalised in that time was more than 2.2 million.

Of these, 59 per cent were granted permanent leave to remain in the country, called settled status, and 41 per cent were granted pre-settled status - which means they have temporary leave to remain and would need to apply again for permanent permission at a later date.

Khan said: “While the government is putting all of its focus on Brexit, this is the biggest change in rights and immigration status in our country for a generation.

“The government are sleepwalking into another Windrush scandal and we can’t allow that to happen. We have more than one million EU citizens living in London who belong in this city, are part of what makes it so special, and rightly call it home.”

Sadiq Khan, mayor of London (PA) 

Tories won more working class votes than Labour 

Our political editor Andrew Woodcock has more on that remarkable post-election You Gov survey – which suggests the Conservatives have become the party of the working classes.

The Tories out-polled Labour by double-digit figures among both manual workers and households with incomes below £20,000.

All the details here:

Labour MP reminisces as she leaves her office

Caroline Flint, who lost her seat in Doncaster’s Don Valley, has been packing up in her parliamentary office today – and tweeted an image of “the way we were” (a map showing Labour’s big win in 1997).

Cummings said PM should hire ministers from ‘wherever’ and ‘whack them in the House of Lords’

Boris Johnson’s top adviser previously vowed to make people government ministers by handing them peerages if he ever got “control” of No10, a video recording has revealed.

Dominic Cummings, speaking shortly after having been sacked as an adviser to Michel Gove, proposed that the prime minister should recruit ministers “from wherever” and “whack ‘em in the House of Lords” to allow them to take government jobs.

The clip, from 2014, resurfaced as Mr Johnson handed a peerage to Nicky Morgan, who stepped down as an MP at the general election, to allow her to continue in her role of culture secretary. It is understood that she will hold the post until there is a full cabinet reshuffle in February.

PM and European Commission president commit to ‘great energy’ collaboration

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has congratulated Boris Johnson on his election victory and the pair have agreed to work together with “great energy” to agree a future partnership by the end of next year.

Following the telephone call on Tuesday morning, the PM’s official spokesman said: “The president congratulated the Prime Minister on his success in the election and they agreed to work together with great energy to agree a future partnership by December 2020.”

Ursula von der Leyen (Reuters)

‘You could see it coming from space,’ says former Labour MP on defeat

Former Labour MP Jenny Chapman, who lost her seat last week, has been talking aout why the party lost. “In a sense you could see this coming from space and it is a wonder for me it did not happen in 2017,” she said.

“They didn’t see what we were offering as credible,” she added. “To be honest with you, with didn’t get as far as talking about the manifesto on the doorstep … they didn’t see our leader as a potential prime minister.”

On Brexit, she added: “The last three year of my life, It’s been bloody awful some of it, it’s been just impossible for the Labour Party to get this right.” Shed described the party’s policy on Brexit as “too complex”.

Labour must be part of progressive coalition, says Mandelson

Peter Mandelson, one of the architects of New Labour, argues the public – and not just activists –need to be persuaded to get behind “a progressive coalition capable of winning power in our country once again”.

Read his thoughts here:

‘People are smart – they think about what’s put in front of them,’ says Kuenssberg

Laura Kuenssberg has been talking about the lection and The Brexit Storm Continues, to be shown on BBC2 tonight at 9pm.

“A very fascinating, human, lively portrait of what it was like behind the curtain,” she said of the documentary.

Kuenssberg said of the general election results: “Voters don’t like being labelled, voters are not homogenous blocks … People are not sitting at home going ‘Oh well I’m definitely a Labour voter, I’m definitely a Tory voter’.

“People are nuanced, people are smart. They think about what’s put in front of them each time. And this time quite clearly … communities who traditionally tended one way, decided to tend another way.”

Seven in ten have negative opinion of Jeremy Corbyn

More from the post-election YouGov survey. It shows a huge proportion of people find Jeremy Corbyn “unfavourable” – 71 per cent. By comparison “only” 52 per cent find Boris Johnson unfavourable.

Sir Lindsay Hoyle set to be re-elected as speaker

The new parliament – following last week’s general election – is now holding its first session and around 100 new MPs will be sworn-in today, writes Ashley Cowburn.

Sir Peter Bottomley, the father of the House, led MPs to the Lords chamber for the formal ceremony – ahead of the election of the new speaker to replace John Bercow, who resigned in October. Sir Lindsay Hoyle is expected to be re-elected as speaker when MPs return to the chamber momentarily.

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn followed behind Sir Peter, walking side-by-side, with SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford also among the delegation to visit the Lords.