The Week: Immigration Reform, Burnham And The Budget
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4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Today, the home secretary makes second big change to migration policy in a week.
Shabana Mahmood has announced the qualifying period for indefinite leave to remain will be extended from five to 10 years, and will apply to the estimated 2.6 million who arrived since 2021. The changes will not apply to people who had already obtained settlement. Adam, Joe, Faisal and Sarah Montague, presenter of the World at One, discuss this plus more Labour leadership questions and preview the budget.
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| 1:29.0 | Hello, Sarah. |
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| 1:30.7 | And happy birthday to the World at 1, which is 60. It is. It is indeed. We've been celebrating quite a lot in recent weeks. Including a little party. We did have a little party. With some celebs. But not this one. Less said about that, the better. Do you know what I realised, though? We didn't invite Faisal, though. Yeah, I did. All the big names. That's good. I bet he talks about his interview with the CEO of Google again. Do you know what I realized, though, when newscast is 60 years old, I'll be 100. And it'll be in 2080. |
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| 2:08.1 | flying right now to South Africa with the Prime Minister for the G20 summit. But he left us a little |
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