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The home secretary is set to announce the largest overhaul in the UK’s immigration system in modern times, as she said “we must restore order and control” over who enters and remains in the country.
Shabana Mahmood will address the House of Commons today to lay out “the most sweeping reforms to tackle illegal migration in modern times”, effectively since the Second World War.
Modelled on the Danish system, the aim of the reforms is to make the UK less attractive for illegal immigrants and make it easier to deport them.
Under the plans, she will bring forward a bill to change how article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the right to family life, is applied in migration court cases.
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That’s as the Home Office claimed it had seen a rise in the use of rights-based appeals in recent years as a means of avoiding deportation.
The changes would see only those with immediate family in the UK, such as a parent or child, being able to use article 8 as grounds to stay in future.
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The home secretary, who has been in the job for 73 days, also plans to change the law so that multiple attempts to appeal against refusals for asylum will no longer be allowed.
Furthermore, refugees will face a 20-year wait before they can apply for permanent settlement as part of the…
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