Overview
- Reports on Sunday said ministers are helping Labour backbenchers seek exemptions to Shabana Mahmood’s plan to lengthen the path to indefinite leave to remain.
- The proposal under consultation would raise the standard wait for permanent residence from five to ten years, with a disputed move to apply it to people already living in the UK.
- About 100 Labour MPs signed a letter opposing the settlement plan, and critics are preparing a little‑used procedure to force a symbolic vote.
- Downing Street declined to endorse every element of the package, while the Home Office said permanent residence should be earned rather than automatic.
- Separate asylum rules have recently taken effect for new claimants, shifting refugee status to 30‑month grants with periodic reviews, and a Commons committee warned longer settlement routes could push care workers into poverty or out of the sector.