The Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will change the law so the freed ringleader of a Rochdale grooming gang can be deported.
She is expected to set out on Monday how she plans to amend the 1971 Immigration Act which currently stops Shabir Ahmed being removed from the UK after he was released from prison last week
Prime Minister in waiting Andy Burnham described the news as “the right decision”
However the Government may still have a problem getting Pakistan to accept him back
The announcement will coincide with the second reading of her Immigration and Asylum Bill on Monday, but it is not known whether the changes will be fast-tracked as separate legislation or incorporated as a Government amendment to the bill.
