Changes to refugee residency rules in the UK

From Morning Report, 6:37 am on 17 November 2025

In the UK, refugees will soon have to wait twenty years, instead of five, before they can apply to stay permanently. BBC political correspondent Rob Watson spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

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