There was once a time when we were told that migration would make us rich, ensure our pensions were paid and that diversity made us stronger. Those arguments are dying, with the fiscal case demolished by the likes of the Migration Advisory Committee. Even the government’s latest cohesion strategy, ‘Protecting What Matters’, admits that diversity is ‘a problem to be’ approached. And now the Boriswave, the low-paid millions who arrived earlier this decade, are soon to be granted Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR), giving them access to benefits and housing at taxpayers’ expense forever.

Thornberry has joined the fray, posting a video in which she speaks soft-voiced to camera, complaining that ‘we’ didn’t ‘make the positive case for migration’, and that Mahmood’s earned settlement model will be ‘cruel’

Thornberry has joined the fray, posting a video in which she speaks soft-voiced to camera, complaining that ‘we’ didn’t ‘make the positive case for migration’, and that Mahmood’s earned settlement model will be ‘cruel’

This is why the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is urgently reforming ILR, and facing mounting opposition from Labour backbenchers. Under her changes, Boriswave arrivals, and others, would have to wait ten years for ILR, not five as is currently the case, and settlement will have to be earned.

Labour leadership hopeful Angela Rayner has described the reforms as........

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