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UK opposition leader Kemi Badenoch has said her Conservative party would make it more difficult for regular migrants to settle permanently in Britain. The announcement, her first major policy proposal since taking over the struggling party in November, comes as she tries to stop supporters flocking to the hard-right Reform UK party. Badenoch said in an interview late Wednesday that migrants would have to prove they had made a net contribution to the UK economy in order to settle indefinitely in the country, by working and paying taxes. A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain’s main opposition Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch speaking during the weekly session of Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) at the House of Commons, in London, on January 29, 2025. (Photo by House of Commons / AFP) That means residency status would not be granted to migrants who had claimed benefits, she told the BBC. “We need to slow down the track for citizenship. A UK passport should be a privilege, not an automatic right,” said Badenoch, who was born in London to Nigerian parents and raised in Nigeria.
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