Andy Burnham is considering watering down plans to implement the Home Secretary’s hardline immigration reforms retrospectively, according to allies.
Under Shabana Mahmood’s plans, the time it takes for most migrant workers to qualify for permanent residence will be doubled from five year to ten years and will be applied retrospectively.
That means those who are already here could have to wait years longer for permanent residency than they had expected when they arrived in the UK.
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Mahmood insists the changes to the law, which are expected to be introduced in the autumn, are necessary because of “historically large numbers” that arrived since 2021, dubbed the “Boriswave” by Reform UK.
