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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Labour demands clarity on Tory plan to strip thousands of right to stay in UK

Conservative MP Katie Lam being interviewed on ITV
In an interview, Conservative MP Katie Lam said the deportation of so many legally settled people was necessary to make the UK ‘culturally coherent’. Photograph: Jonathan Hordle/ITV/Shutterstock

Labour has called on the Conservatives to clarify their plan to strip the right to remain permanently in the UK from thousands of people, saying those affected had a right to know what was being proposed.

Anna Turley MP, the Labour chair, has written to Katie Lam, the shadow Home Office minister whose interview about the plans last weekend sparked renewed interest in the policy of retrospectively revoking indefinite leave to remain (ILR) status for large numbers of people.

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