Overview
- Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will present the package in the Commons today, describing it as the largest rewrite of asylum rules in modern times.
- Refugee status would shift to 30-month permissions subject to mandatory reviews, with returns required once home countries are assessed as safe.
- People who arrive via irregular routes would face a 20-year path to permanent residence, with limited scope to shorten it through capped work or study routes.
- The statutory duty to provide housing and weekly allowances would be revoked, support would become discretionary, and ministers plan to curb repeat appeals and tighten Article 8 family-life claims.
- The plan draws on Denmark’s model with new safe and legal routes, facial-age estimation technology, and a removal-focused body, prompting criticism from refugee groups and some Labour MPs.