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Shabana Mahmood announced the reforms in the Commons yesterday | Credit: House of Commons |
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Charles Hymas Home Affairs Editor |
After weeks of intense lobbying by Cabinet ministers, Labour MPs and unions, Shabana Mahmood has watered down her migration crackdown, exempting as many as 300,000 foreign care workers.
She had previously warned that sparing care workers from her plans to force migrants to wait 15 rather than five years for their right to settle in Britain could “drain the public finances” of an extra £10bn in welfare, tax, health and associated costs.
However, with a new Prime Minister intent on creating a national care service, the Home Secretary had little option but to soften her plans and include care workers in the 1.4 million “Boriswave” migrants who will be allowed to qualify for indefinite leave to remain after five years.
They join doctors, nurses, teachers and other health workers, Hong Kongers who fled to Britain, refugees on government-approved safe and legal routes, and high earners on £125,141 or more a year, who could qualify after three years.
Home Office officials calculate that around 500,000 of the Boriswave migrants will have to wait longer than the current five years, down from 780,000 under the original plans.
Mahmood has established the principle of “earned settlement” – that indefinite leave to remain will no longer be automatic – and has set conditions which migrants must pass, including having a spotless criminal record, speaking English to a higher standard, and earning at or above the National Insurance threshold of £12,571.
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The next two years of Donald Trump’s presidency are in the balance | Credit: Getty Images / Andrew Harnik |
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Poppy Coburn Associate Comment Editor |
The end of Donald Trump’s decade-long domination of American politics may be in sight. Today, much of the US will vote, with Democratic campaign staffers giddily predicting a presidential election turnout.
If they’re correct, both the House and the Senate will flip blue, leaving the Republicans with a hamstrung president just when his unpopularity is at a record high.
However, the midterms aren’t just about Trump’s political future. The issues that will decide the course of the country going forward are being hammered out in a number of high-profile races. A wave of successful progressive primary challenges has left the Democrats with a roster of hard-Left candidates.
The Right Track with Poppy Coburn launches on Friday |
Some want big, bold, populist policies, ranging from wealth taxes on billionaires, a break in relations with Israel, to the abolition of ICE.
If these progressives win their races, expect to see a significant ideological shift towards the Left in the next two years. You can hear more about this in our new podcast series The Right Track with Poppy Coburn, launching this week.
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Read on to find out more about today’s elections:
Nervous White House plans for life after midterms defeat ➤
‘Trump will call in the guns’: Voters fear fresh Capitol riots ➤
Democrats pin hopes on their new Obama ➤
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Tom Harris As the threat from Nigel Farage’s party subsides in the polls, Shabana Mahmood and her colleagues are reverting to type Continue reading ➤
Andrew Orlowski The end of online anonymity is here Continue reading ➤
Hannah Betts My family’s tough love would horrify today’s mollycoddlers Continue reading ➤ |
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• The US has launched fresh strikes on Iran on the eve of the midterm elections. Donald Trump had said that he may restart bombing following the Nov 3 vote but hit Qeshm Island as part of a string of limited strikes that the US has carried out in secret.
• Primary school children could be criminalised for questioning a classmate’s desire to change gender under new government legislation, the former chairman of the equalities watchdog has warned.
• Britain’s cyber security chiefs have issued an alert to retailers after European officials said the hacking of supermarket fridges was a threat to food security.
• Hundreds of parents, schoolchildren and staff have staged a protest outside a private school that closed without warning at the half-term. Leweston School said Labour’s VAT raid on private education had been partly to blame.
• A pilot heard shouting “mayday” as her private jet plummeted to a fatal crash has been identified as a 20-year-old aviator who earned her pilot’s licence as a teenager.
Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras was the co-pilot of Sunday’s flight |
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In the latest twist in a row over whether Britain should pay reparations for the slave trade, Andy Burnham will give £40m to Caribbean projects. The Prime Minister will pledge the money for green energy schemes in the West Indies and will also set out plans to help poorer Commonwealth members grappling with increased debt costs. The pledge puts the King, who will address Commonwealth leaders today, back in the spotlight after Buckingham Palace had sought to distance the monarch from the row. For subscribers only ➤ |
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For young Tories, the recent Conservative Party conference was a sanctuary where Kemi Badenoch blew kisses at them and they could talk to anyone. On campus, however, they face dirty looks, social pariah status and accusations of fascism. With membership surging and Reform drawing the Left’s wrath, Conservative chiefs are attempting to supercharge their youth wing.
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Jordan North, the co-host of Capital Breakfast, was an Army child: the son of a sergeant major and the younger brother of a paratrooper. Now an ambassador for Little Troopers – an organisation supported by The Telegraph Christmas Charity Appeal – North shares how his experience of moving schools and facing physical danger instilled in him the resilience needed for his career in broadcasting. Continue reading ➤ |
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Nigella Lawson’s role as judge on the Great British Bake Off has been just the sugar hit the show needed, and it’s not just down to her no-nonsense verdicts. She has adopted a sleek new look for filming, swapping the bodycon dresses she once relied upon for macaron colours and delicious prints. Searches are soaring for jumpsuits and leopard print jackets. Here, Rebecca Cope breaks down the presenter’s best looks of the series so far.
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Our series The Expert View brings you specialist health advice from professionals. In this article we hear from Dr Bryant Lin who, after treating many patients for cancer over the years, was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2024. He is the author of Sunshine: An Exploration Of Living When You Are Dying.
For me to be diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer was a huge shock.
I’ve had a great medical career at Stanford University’s department of primary care and population health and I’ve never smoked a day in my life. It started with a persistent cough, and within a couple of months I had been diagnosed.
When it comes to dealing with terminal cancer, you never really know until it happens to you. I’ve had conversations with my sons about me not being around in the future.
Soon after my diagnosis, I started thinking “How do I turn lemons into lemonade?”
I want to live a full life, a life of meaning. As somebody with terminal cancer, I don’t want to forget to be curious, creative and kind. Helping others brings me joy and happiness.
A worthwhile question for people to think about is: “If you had limited time, what’s important to you?”
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Clean as a whistleEvery weekday, Orlando Bird, our loyal Reader Correspondent, shares an off-piste topic that has brought out the best of your opinions and stories. Orlando writes:
As I was waiting to cross the road the other day, a car slowed nearby. A window slid down, and out came the remnants of a McDonald’s banquet of medieval proportions: cups, boxes, spurned fries, a half-eaten Filet-O-Fish. I summoned my fiercest glare. Curiously, though, rather than stopping, getting out, clearing up and quietly apologising, the driver sped off. Ah, London.
Must it be this way? Not according to Kerry Walker, the travel writer, who suggests that our venerable capital could learn a thing or two from others in Europe.
Readers agreed. “I loved my trip to Vienna 12 years ago,” recalled Jackie Craig. “It was clean and seemed very safe. I felt the same in Budapest. I was also impressed with the underground system in Vienna: inexpensive, efficient and a pleasure to use.”
Anne Dunlop added: “I recently returned from a trip to several locations in Austria, and was very impressed by how clean it was everywhere – in contrast to Canada, where I live.”
Scandinavian countries are widely regarded as paragons of civic cleanliness, but one reader wasn’t so sure: “I went to Copenhagen in July 2026, and was shocked to see weeds growing everywhere and dog mess on every pavement. London actually isn’t so bad. It’s grubby, rather than having rubbish everywhere.”
Andrea Jones advised looking further afield: “In Japan, there are very few public litter bins, yet there is no litter. People take their rubbish home to dispose of. There is a general sense of responsibility and respect for others, which is lacking in the UK now.” What’s the cleanest city you’ve ever visited? Send your responses here, and the best of the bunch will feature in a future edition of this newsletter.
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1534 | The English Parliament passes the Act of Supremacy, making Henry VIII and all subsequent monarchs the Head of the Church of England
1957 | The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2 with space dog Laika aboard; she becomes the first animal to orbit the earth but dies in flight (you can see our front page from the following day below)
1975 | Elizabeth II officially inaugurates the flow of oil from the Forties Field, near Aberdeen, the largest oilfield yet discovered in the British sector of the North Sea
1997 | TV comedy I’m Alan Partridge, starring Steve Coogan, premieres on BBC Two
Birthdays: Kendall Jenner (31), Ben Fogle (53), Ian Wright (63)
Plus, some rare monkeys have been rescued after they were stolen from a zoo in south-western France. Who were their saviours?
The monkey heist included cotton-top tamarins, a critically endangered species distinguished by their striking white crests |
1. Commandos
2. Firemen
3. Vets
4. British schoolchildren
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Find as many words as you can in today’s Panagram, including the nine-letter solution. Visit Telegraph Puzzles to play a range of head-scratching games, including PlusWord, Sorted, and Quick, Mini or Cryptic Crosswords.
Yesterday’s Panagram was ROUGHNECK. Come back tomorrow for the solution to today’s puzzle. |
Thank you for reading. Have a fulfilling day and I hope to see you tomorrow. Chris Evans, Editor
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