Mahmood drops 15-year settlement wait for care workers in immigration U-turn
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has dropped plans to make migrant care workers already in the UK wait 15 years for permanent settlement, following pushback from cabinet colleagues and unions, as she set out a tiered immigration framework. Under the revised rules, the default qualifying period for indefinite leave to remain doubles from five years to 10, but care workers earning at least £25,000 who arrived before May 2025 will retain a five-year route. Also in this briefing: the UK and EU complete a 200-page draft agreement to scrap post-Brexit food checks; the Supreme Court hears arguments over the proscription of Palestine Action under terrorism laws; and a cyber-attack targets supermarket cooling systems across Europe.
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Migrant care workers retain their five-year settlement route after ministers dropped a proposed fifteen-year wait.
A draft agreement scraps costly food export health certificates and routine checks between Britain and Northern Ireland.
The Supreme Court heard legal challenges against the terrorism ban imposed on direct-action group Palestine Action.
A European cyber-attack spiked food cooling temperatures up to fifty-five degrees Celsius, hitting three British abattoirs.
National cyber officials warned of potential artificial intelligence ransomware attacks striking critical infrastructure by twenty twenty-eight.
- 01Intro1 min
- 02Mahmood drops 15-year settlement wait for care workers in immigration U-turn: The revised policy2 min
- 03Mahmood drops 15-year settlement wait for care workers in immigration U-turn: Political and fiscal fallout2 min
- 04UK and EU reach draft deal to scrap food checks ahead of Brussels summit1 min
- 05Supreme Court hears Palestine Action terror ban appeal following mass arrests1 min
- 06Where things stand1 min
- 07Cyber-attack hits European food supply as UK officials warn of AI threat2 min
- 08Outro1 min
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