Shabana Mahmood is set to unveil Labour’s tougher stance on immigration. Toby Melville/PA Wire

The UK government will only grant settled status rights to working migrants under radical plans drawn up by Labour’s Shabana Mahmood.

In a speech at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, Mahmood will tell an audience of activists that the government will tighten its indefinite leave to remain rights, which allow migrants to gain settled status in the UK and broader access to UK public services.

A proposed change will make migrants have to pay national insurance , claim no benefits and have a clean criminal record before they can indefinite leave to remain.

The home secretary is set to tell members that she will draw up policies they “won’t always like” but that she was determined to t

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