Chris Mason: Home secretary to face scrutiny over changes to rules for legal migrants

The home secretary will lay out a revised proposal for changing when migrants can claim permanent residency later.

A report by the Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee said decision-making had been characterised by "inconsistency".

Home secretary to make some migrants wait 10 years or more for right to settle in UK Good morning. Often these days, when the government has a big announcement and just before the relevant minister starts to give the details in a statement to MPs, Lindsay Hoyle, the Commons speaker, erupts with fury and rants and raves at the Treasury bench about how all the main points have already been leaked to the media, in contravention of the ministerial code. Not today. Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary

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