Overview
- Backbench Labour MPs are preparing procedural moves to force Commons scrutiny, and an Early Day Motion seeks to annul the statutory instrument on refugee status.
- Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s proposals would double the qualifying period for indefinite leave to remain from five to ten years and apply to many already in the UK.
- The government has resisted calls for a U-turn and says it is assessing roughly 200,000 consultation submissions before issuing a formal response.
- Angela Rayner has condemned the settlement plan as “un-British” and a breach of trust, intensifying public disagreement within Labour.
- Reports that Mahmood threatened to resign if her reforms were diluted are contested, with both the Home Office and No 10 denying she made such a warning.