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UK Extends Asylum Settlement Wait to 20 Years Amid Record Claims

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Above: **Watermarked Getty Image. Kindly Replace** British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood at the BBC Broadcasting House in London on Sunday, to appear on the BBC One current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. Image copyright: James Manning/PA Images/Getty Images

The Spin

Starmer's cruel asylum crackdown abandons British values of compassion while failing to reduce Channel crossings. These heartless policies will separate families and condemn hardworking refugees to permanent second-class status, besides extinguishing that tiny bit of hope they have in their otherwise dark lives.

Daily Mirror Guardian

Britain must restore border control before losing public support for asylum entirely. The government will launch campaigns abroad warning migrants about tougher rules including 20-year settlement waits. These necessary reforms remove incentives drawing illegal migrants while opening new legal routes for genuine refugees.

Shabana Mahmood on X lbc.co.uk

Metaculus Prediction

There is a 50% chance that the UK's GDP per capita will be less than 50% of that of the world's leading major economy by February 2033, according to the Metaculus prediction community.