Starmer braced for backlash from Labour MPs as Mahmood sets out asylum plans – UK politics live

Home secretary to announce a drastic tightening of rules, including requiring asylum seekers to wait 20 years before getting the right to permanently settle in UKAlex Norris, the border security and asylum minister, has been giving interviews this morning defending the government’s asylum plans.Even though the government has said that people who arrive in the UK illegally could have to wait 20 years before they can get permanent settlement under the proposals, Norris played down the prospect of this happening.Those individuals who were on that 20-year route to settlement – we will give them the chance to switch to work or study routes so that they are learning English, so that they are taking part in the economy, so they’re contributing to their own lives and to British society. And if they do that, they can earn their right to settlement, like others on on work and study routes do already.Let’s