The U.K. will no longer automatically allow refugees granted asylum to stay indefinitely or reunite with their families, as Prime Minister Keir Starmer seeks to curb the incentives for migrants crossing the English Channel.

Starmer will announce the changes on Thursday at the European Political Community summit in Copenhagen, where he will co-chair a roundtable on tackling illegal immigration. People fleeing persecution will have to “contribute” to the U.K. and be in the country for longer than five years before they can claim so-called settled status, Starmer will say, according to a statement from his office.

“There will be no golden ticket to settling in the U.K.,” Starmer said. “People will have to earn it.”

The move is part of newly installed home secretary, Shabana Mahmood’s, effo

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