Overview
- Refugee protection would be limited to 30 months with regular reviews, requiring returns when home countries are deemed safe.
- The government plans to revoke the legal duty to guarantee housing and weekly allowances, making support discretionary for those able to work or who commit crimes.
- New capped legal routes would include work and study schemes and a community sponsorship program modeled on Homes for Ukraine.
- People who enter through designated legal pathways would face a separate 10-year route to permanent settlement, up from the current five years.
- Officials say the Denmark-inspired approach responds to pressures highlighted by about 111,000 asylum applications in the year to June and roughly 39,000 Channel arrivals this year, as charities and some Labour MPs criticize the plans.