https://www.thetimes.com/article/670d032c-e696-45ee-87ad-e501ff0a5df3?shareToken=6e8c71042e13918c180a2e55f9e67728
The Times can also reveal that 1.5 million foreign workers who have moved to Britain since 2020 face having to wait a further five years to apply for permanent settlement.
Under reforms set out in the immigration white paper, automatic settlement and citizenship rights will be granted after ten years instead of five, but it did not state whether this would apply for migrants already here.
Government sources said Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, wants to apply the changes to all migrants who have arrived in the UK in the last five years. This would mean that 1.5 million foreign workers who would have qualified for permanent settlement later this year face having to wait until they have lived in Britain for ten years.