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UK Plans Tougher Rules For Migrants Seeking To Stay In Country

British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is to unveil plans to toughen rules to allow migrants to settle permanently in the UK (Credit: AFP)

Britain's interior minister Monday proposed tough new rules for migrants seeking to settle in the UK, as the ruling Labour party bolstered its fight against the hard right at its annual conference.

Migrants looking to remain indefinitely will have to have a job, not claim benefits, and undertake volunteer community work under plans designed to claw back support among voters drawn to the anti-immigrant Reform UK party, whose popularity is soaring.

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