BBC Breakfast's major migrant crisis update leaves viewers raging - 'Too little too late'

BBC Breakfast viewers were left up in arms as Chief Political Correspondent Henry Zeffman unveiled more details about migrants having to prove they are contributing to society to stay in the UK. He began: "The still relatively new Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has perhaps the most significant announcement, which is a new set of conditions that migrants who want to be able to stay here indefinitely, get indefinite leave to remain, will have to meet. Those include learning English to a high standard and having a clean criminal record.

"And also, and this is the bit that is hardest to see, how they would measure - having evidence that they are contributing to their community."

Mahmood's bold move is set to redefine the path to permanent residency here in the UK.

She will speak at the Labour Party conference later today to reveal radical plans forcing migrants to prove they contribute to society before being allowed to live here permanently.

One disgruntled viewer took to X to comment on the BBC's report: "Make the Tony Blair Institute, which owns Keir Starmer and most of his cabinet, prove it is contributing to society and not robbing the British State blind through corrupt contracts with foreign tech partners."

Another simply said: "Too little, too late." A third claimed: "Yeah they're contributing to society by making it a dangerous place."

However, another person argued: "People! They are called people and I'm guessing these PEOPLE are contributing more to this country than those fat toothless jobless racist morons that come to London to "protest" about immigration."

Migrants will have to wait a decade rather than the current five years before being able to claim ILR unless they are making a particularly significant contribution to society, whether financially or through voluntary and charity work.

Under a new scoring system, those who fall short in some of the categories could be forced to wait longer than 10 years. Migrants who make little or no contribution would need to rely on benefits or face removal from the UK when their existing visa comes up for renewal.