- Home secretary Shabana Mahmood has revised immigration overhaul plans, allowing foreign care workers earning at least £25,000 to apply for permanent UK settlement after five years rather than 15.
- Ms Mahmood acknowledged the revised proposals would save less than the initial £10 billion estimate, but insisted billions of pounds in benefit payments would still be saved.
- The home secretary stated that legal immigration levels in the UK have been too high, noting that net migration has already fallen by 82 per cent.
- Asylum minister Anna Turley defended the priority to address domestic recruitment, while Andy Burnham noted planned migration could plug workforce gaps.
- Shadow home secretary Chris Philp described the policy change as a humiliating capitulation, while acknowledging high migration under the previous Conservative administration was wrong.
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