How will UK immigration rules change under Shabana Mahmood’s latest plans?

Under Keir Starmer, the home secretary had been tasked with driving down net migration, and had drawn up proposals to tighten up the criteria under which people can apply to remain indefinitely in the UK.

She had proposed forcing many low-paid workers including care workers to wait 15 years before being able to apply to live permanently in the UK, despite the fact that when they came to the UK they had expected to wait five years. The new norm for most workers will be a 10-year wait.

How did these proposals change on Monday?

Mahmood scrapped plans for lower-paid workers to wait for 15 years. She went further, and said that if care workers earned at least £25,000 and had arrived in the UK before May 2025, they would be eligible for indefinite leave to remain…