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What are the planned changes to immigration rules?

Proposals to change the requirements to qualify for permanent settlement in the UK were first outlined in detail in November 2025, when Mahmood was home secretary in Sir Keir Starmer's government. Following a…

Charities condemn proposal to make some refugees wait up to 30 years for settlement – as it happened

We need protections that work in practice, certainty for workers and their families, and a system that allows care providers to retain the people our communities rely on every day. But business organisations like the CBI…

Mistral CEO: Europe faces ‘complete trap’ without frontier AI

That tension has already surfaced for Mistral. German search engine Ecosia stopped using its models after concluding they did not meet its needs. Its CEO said that switching to Chinese models cut costs by half while…

MP Carla Lockhart quits DUP in Drumcree row

The MP for Upper Bann had been calling for the party to withdraw Stormont's deputy first minister to force First Minister Michelle O'Neill from their joint office. Lockhart said she was leaving the DUP on a "point of…

Streeting has ‘total confidence’ UK will hit defense spending target

There is also concern that adding another member would dilute the amount of work being done by companies from the three original countries, something Streeting said he was aware of. German officials also worry that…

Reform council leader quits after staff comments leaked

He said he had made the decision after taking advice from senior Reform colleagues, and added deputy council leader Kevin Crook had taken over as acting leader. It comes after Harrison had apologised after being recorded…

Labour councillors will no longer be in coalition with the Greens in areas including Sheffield, Warwick and Lewes. Labour Party chair Bridget Phillipson said: "Labour has been clear from the start that the "Zionism is…

A decade of magical thinking since Brexit has taught me that it’s always OK to hope for better | Zoe Williams

All such nonsense, all delivered with such conviction, by such a wide variety of sources, many of them self-describing as impartial, that in the end you just surrender to it. None of it magically becomes true, don't be…

Rachel Reeves and the Starmerites are back – and they’re pointing out how little has changed | Gaby Hinsliff

She would also like to mention that she "absolutely" got all the big calls right as chancellor, even if there were a few things she would have done differently, and that John Healey's budget last week would have been far…

EHRC raises concern with Reform about ‘racial and sexual remarks’ in documentary

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said it had written to Nigel Farage's party in the wake of revelations in ITV's Undercover: A Year in Reform, which was broadcast in October. While Farage has said the…