LONDON: Britain’s home secretary proposed strict new rules for migrants seeking to settle in the UK, as the ruling Labour party bolstered its fight against the hard right at its annual conference. Migrants looking to remain indefinitely will have to have a job, not claim benefits, and undertake volunteer community work under plans designed to claw back support among voters drawn to the anti-immigrant Reform UK party, whose popularity is soaring. Confronting Reform, led by firebrand Nigel Farage, is the main theme of Labour’s four-day gathering in Liverpool, northwest England.

Nigel Farage’s party’s proposal would require those who have been granted indefinite leave to remain to re-apply under much stricter rules.

Prime minister says Reform proposal to abolish indefinite leave to remain could ‘tear this country apart’

PM says immigration proposals could tear country apart as Labour delegates gather for first day of party conference

New tests will include learning English to a high standard, paying National Insurance and not claiming benefits.

It comes a day after Keir Starmer branded Nigel Farage’s plans to abolish indefinite leave to remain ‘racist’

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Britain tightens immigration policies, ending automatic settlement for asylum seekers to curb immigration and support for Reform U.K. party.