Frances Ryan's Guardian column argues Labour's visa policy is senseless: care workers must wait 5 or 15 years for indefinite leave to remain while a £125,000 solicitor is fast-tracked in three. It reports Shabana Mahmood's partial U-turn exempting an estimated 280,000 care workers after a union backlash, and cites campaigners' warnings that the extra five-year visa leaves migrants open to exploitation. Ryan calls the contribution-based policy blatant classism that rewards the wealthy and dismisses working-class, predominantly female labour, and notes IPPR research finding settling migrants are expected to boost the public purse by £115bn in taxes.