Overview
- Refugee status would be cut to 30 months and reviewed regularly, with returns ordered when home countries are deemed safe.
- The government plans to revoke the 2005 duty guaranteeing housing and weekly allowances, making support discretionary and withdrawable from those who can work or break rules.
- Ministers will instruct courts to give greater weight to public safety in Article 8 ECHR deportation decisions and will roll out AI facial‑age checks to assess claimed children.
- The package includes new capped safe and legal routes, such as work and study options and a community sponsorship scheme modeled on Homes for Ukraine.
- Officials cite record demand and Channel pressures — 111,000 asylum applications in the year to June and more than 39,000 small‑boat arrivals this year — as charities and some Labour MPs condemn the plans, with full details due in Parliament on Monday.