Ms Mahmood is also expected to announce the launch of a consultation exploring whether the qualifying period for indefinite leave should be extended from five to ten years. Top Reform figure Zia Yusuf said: "Hundreds of thousands of people [would] have o apply and ultimately lose their settled status in the UK. In a rebuke of Nigel Farage’s party, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Reform’s proposals were ‘racist’ and ‘immoral’. "It's one thing to say we're going to remove illegal migrants, people who have no right to be here, I'm up for that." "They are our neighbours, they're people who work in our economy, they're part of who we are.