Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email Email * SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. If you do, I know this country will welcome you.”Here’s what you need to know about ILR, and what Labour and Reform are proposing over the policy. It gives them the right to live, work and study in the country permanently, as well as access benefits where eligible. Instead, a new visa with far stricter requirements would need to be successfully applied for and renewed every five years. It added that the move would undo the “Boris wave” of migrants ushered in by the former Conservative prime minister.