能源部长米娅塔·法恩布莱（Miatta Fahnbulleh）在接受天空电视台（Sky News）采访时多次拒绝明确表示自己是否支持这些移民政策改革。她表示，自己提到那次“尴尬”的采访只是出于轻松、自嘲的目的。此前，她曾开玩笑说自己无法“撒谎”来掩饰自己对这项改革的支持态度，因此被迫澄清自己的立场。
The energy secretary, Miatta Fahnbulleh, repeatedly refused to say she was in favour of the ILR rule changes during a Sky interview. Miatta Fahnbulleh says reference to ‘awkward’ interview was meant to be lighthearted and self-deprecating The energy secretary has been forced to clarify that she backs Shabana Mahmood’s migration policy, after earlier joking that she had not been able to “lie” about supporting a key element of the changes. Miatta Fahnbulleh made the original remarks to a journalists’ event in Westminster, referring to an “awkward” Sky News interview in which she repeatedly refused to say she was in favour of plans to make foreign workers wait 15 years to get permanent residency.
米娅塔·法恩布莱是在威斯敏斯特的一次记者会上做出上述言论的。她提到那次与天空电视台的采访非常“尴尬”——在采访中，她多次拒绝承认自己支持让外国工人等待15年才能获得永久居留权的政策。她在会上说：“我从政时对自己做了三个承诺：第一个就是永远不说谎，但这导致了一些尴尬的场面，比如昨天接受索菲·里奇（Sophy Ridge）的采访。”她暗示自己无法违背自己的原则去支持这项改革，这一言论在政府内部引起了不满；不过，首相府方面拒绝透露是否要求她做出澄清。
She told the event: “I made three promises to myself when I came into politics. The first was never lie, which has created some awkward moments, including being interviewed by Sophy Ridge yesterday.”The implication that she could not bring herself to lie about supporting the changes appears to have gone down badly among colleagues in government, although No 10 refused to be drawn on whether they requested her to issue a clarification. Fahnbulleh posted a statement on social media on Thursday evening saying: “Today I made what was meant to be a lighthearted, self-deprecating remark. I didn’t get it right and it hasn’t come off as I intended. “I fully support our home secretary and the government’s position on migration reform. As I said earlier this week, it’s absolutely right that people should have to make a contribution to this country in order to earn citizenship.”
周四晚上，米娅塔·法恩布莱在社交媒体上发布声明称：“我当时的言论本意是轻松、自嘲的，但表达得不够恰当，结果并没有达到预期的效果。我完全支持内政部长以及政府在移民改革方面的立场。正如我本周早些时候所说，人们必须为这个国家做出贡献才能获得公民身份，这是完全正确的。”她的这次澄清表明，内阁内部在移民改革问题上存在分歧：法恩布莱和安吉拉·雷纳（Angela Rayner）等人并不赞成原计划的某些内容。
The clarification represents a twist in the cabinet split over the issue of the migration changes, with Fahnbulleh and Angela Rayner among those not keen on elements of the original plan. Mahmood, the home secretary, is consulting on plans to increase the period before foreign workers can claim indefinite leave to remain (ILR) from five to 15 years, backdated to apply to anyone arriving from 2021 onwards.
内政部长沙巴娜·马哈茂德（Shabana Mahmood）正在研究将外国工人获得无限期居留权的等待期限从5年延长至15年的方案，并将该规定追溯适用于2021年以后抵达该国的所有人。
The home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, arrives in Downing Street to attend the weekly Cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
内政大臣沙巴娜·马哈茂德于周二抵达唐宁街，参加每周一次的内阁会议。
She has previously hinted that her plan to make it harder to claim permanent residence could be watered down by exempting care workers from the new rule.
她此前曾暗示，自己提出的“加大申请永久居留权难度”的计划可能会因对护理工作者的豁免而受到削弱（即这些护理工作者将不受新规定的约束）。
However, there were reports on Tuesday that she was holding firm against making changes.
然而，周二有报道称她坚决反对对这一计划进行任何修改。一位高级盟友向《泰晤士报》表示：“安迪（首相）在整个关于永久居留权的问题上一直支持沙巴娜，他会坚持自己的立场。”
A senior ally told the Times that she had the prime minister’s support, saying: “Andy has been on Shabana’s side throughout this row over ILR. He is holding the line.”This week it was reported that Fahnbulleh appeared to criticise the plans on her Peckham constituency website in a post about a community discussion that was later removed.
本周有消息称，法恩布莱在她的佩卡姆选区网站上发表了一篇批评该计划的文章（该文章后来被删除）；她在该文章中写道：“如果我们不断延长人们等待居留权批准的时间，那么社会凝聚力的建设进程也会受到影响。”
She was quoted as saying: “If we continually prolong the time people have to wait for settlement, we can also prolong the process of building cohesion.”
今年早些时候，住房大臣雷纳也曾公开批评过这些计划，同时数十名工党议员也反对这些改革措施。
And earlier this year, Rayner, the housing secretary, publicly criticised the plans while dozens of Labour MPs oppose the changes.
反对这些改革的主要人士之一是迈克·塔普——他曾担任移民部长，并因政策问题与马哈茂德发生过争执。他建议内政大臣应充分考虑公众对这一改革的看法，表示：“我们必须做正确的事；那些真正来到英国并在此领域工作过的人不应受到惩罚，他们应该能够按照预期在五年后申请永久居留权。”
One of the leading opponents, Mike Tapp, a former immigration minister who clashed with Mahmood over the policy, said the home secretary should “read the room” in relation to the strength of feeling about the changes. “It’s important we do the right thing. If people have come to the country and genuinely worked in the sector, they shouldn’t be punished and should have the right to apply for settlement after five years as they expected,” he said.
那些呼吁修改马哈茂德政策的议员们认为，他们有可能说服安迪·伯纳姆对护理工作者实施豁免措施，因为改革成人社会护理体系是伯纳姆非常关注的问题。不过，内政部表示，如果这样做的话，那些不再受签证限制的外国工作者可能会大量离开该行业。
MPs campaigning for changes to Mahmood’s policies believe they have a chance of convincing Andy Burnham to exempt care workers, given reforming adult social care is an issue close to his heart. However, the Home Office has said that would lead to an exodus of foreign workers from the sector when they are no longer bound by the terms of their visa.
周三，唐宁街方面强调，马哈茂德正在“仔细研究”公众对这些建议的20多万条反馈意见，才能最终确定最终的改革方案。
No 10 stressed on Wednesday that Mahmood was “carefully considering” more than 200,000 responses to a consultation before finalising the planned changes.
当被问及是否可以排除对内政大臣改革方案进行调整——包括不再追溯适用该政策——时，伯纳姆的新闻秘书表示：“我们提出了供咨询的建议。我们已就已在英国但尚未获得定居身份人士的过渡安排应是什么样子进行了咨询。
Asked whether tweaks to the home secretary’s revamp – including no longer applying the policy retrospectively – could be ruled out, Burnham’s press secretary said: “We set out proposals for consultation. We’ve consulted on what the transition arrangement should look like for people already in the UK who have not received settled status.
“内政大臣正在主导一项深入工作，以确保我们把这件事做对，并制定出恰当的安排。”
“The home secretary is leading a thorough piece of work to ensure we get this right and have the right arrangements in place.”
本周早些时候，一位发言人表示：“本届政府已宣布改革，意味着定居身份必须通过努力获得，而非自动授予。我们目前正在审议对这些改革部分内容的咨询回复。”
Earlier this week, a spokesperson said: “This government has announced reforms that mean settlement must be earned and not automatic. We are currently considering responses to our consultation on elements of these reforms.”