Labour’s immigration crackdown could be applied retrospectively to migrants already in the UK as part of Shabana Mahmood’s bid to stop racism growing in the UK.
The Home Secretary on Monday unveiled a series of new conditions for migrants who want to settle in the UK, including ensuring they learn English to a high standard, work, have a clean criminal record and volunteer in their community.
The time it takes to qualify for indefinite leave to remain will also be doubled from five to ten years under Mahmood’s proposals, which she argued were vital with “racists” taking to the streets and fuelling division in the UK in recent weeks.
Under current plans these new conditions will not apply to the controversial so-called ‘Boriswave’ of hundreds of thousands of migrants, many of whom were lower skilled, that arrived in the UK under Boris Johnson’s post-Brexit immigration rules between 2021 and 2024.
But Mahmood is understood to be looking to apply the policy retrospectively to deal with concerns about the sharp increase in migration after Brexit.
It comes despite Sir Keir Starmer this week branding Nigel Farage’s plan to end the right to settle in the UK – partially designed to deal with the Boriswave – “racist” because it would see people who have lived in the country for decades deported.
Making the case for tough action on migration, Mahmood warned that the “heirs to the skinheads and the Paki-bashers of old” were among the 150,000 who joined the march led by far-right leader Tommy Robinson in London earlier this month.
Stopping the slide to ‘littler England’
She warned that while not everyone at the protest was racist, there was a risk that more people would slide from patriotism – “a force for good” – towards “ethno-nationalism”, unless Labour dealt with people’s concerns that amid mass legal immigration and the Channel small boats crisis the country was “spinning out of control”.
Mahmood used the highly personal speech reflecting on her own Pakistani-heritage background to argue that Labour needs to take tough action on both the Channel small boats crisis and legal immigration to stop the country becoming a “littler England”.
Working-class communities will turn away from Labour and “seek solace in the false promises of [Reform UK leader Nigel] Farage” if the Government fails to act on migration concerns, Mahmood added.
The Home Secretary argued that the UK has always been “open, tolerant and generous” but that this relies on “control” of the borders.
Without this, she said people “will turn towards something smaller, something narrower, something less welcoming, and the division within this country will grow”.
A consultation on the changes to the indefinite leave to remain status will be launched later this year.
In its white paper published in May, the Government also pledged to increase the amount of time migrants have to wait before they can apply for indefinite leave to remain in the UK, to 10 years.
Currently, most migrants who come to Britain on time-limited work visas can make an application for indefinite leave to remain after five years.
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