SETTLEMENT CRACKDOWN SOFTENS Asked on Sky News whether she backs a 15-year wait for permanent residency, Angela Rayner wouldn't say yes. She has already called the plan un-British. Now the Home Secretary's reforms look set to be watered down to head off a Labour rebellion.

BICESTER CAMP FIGHT Villagers near the old MoD Bicester site are suing the Home Office. Their best legal hope? Newts, bats and badgers. Ministers fast-tracked a camp for up to 1,256 men with no local say. When wildlife law is a village's only defence, the system is broken.

EVEN LABOUR MPS WANT BORDER CONTROL Labour's Preet Kaur Gill says constituents constantly tell her they want tough action and secure borders. She calls the billions spent housing illegal arrivals "outrageous". Ministers are out of excuses. Close the hotels and deport.

RAYNER WON'T RULE IT OUT Asked again and again on the BBC this morning whether Britain should go back to EU free movement, Housing Secretary Angela Rayner would not give a straight yes or no. Labour's 2024 manifesto said in black and white there would be no return to freedom of movement. Now she wants an "honest conversation" about the "trade-offs" and to "put that to the people at a general election". The British people already had that conversation in 2016. The answer was to take back control of our borders. A promise that only lasts until the next manifesto is not a promise. It is a holding position.

THE RED LINE HAS A SELL-BY DATE Labour MP Joe Powell told GB News this morning that the ban on EU free movement "stands for the duration of this parliament", and that at the next election it is "right and proper that we look again". So the manifesto pledge was never a principle. It was a timetable. Andy Burnham has already said free movement will not be a red line in talks with Brussels. Now his MPs are openly preparing the ground for it. The British people voted to take back control of our borders. That decision is not Labour's to quietly unpick.

TAKEAWAY VISA LOOPHOLE More than 3,600 takeaway shops in Britain are licensed to sponsor "skilled worker" visas, according to Telegraph analysis of official figures. Over 1,000 are in London alone, including at least 100 chicken, kebab and pizza outlets. The rules say a skilled worker must earn at least £41,700 a year. Median pay in restaurants and takeaways is just under £30,000. Nearly 400 of the London licence holders have fewer than five staff, and some have just one. A route meant for genuine skills has become a back door for cheap labour that undercuts British workers. The Home Office should audit every sponsor licence and revoke the ones that don't add up.

FREE MOVEMENT BACK ON THE TABLE Andy Burnham has told the Sunday Times he wants an "honest discussion" about Britain rejoining EU free movement, the rule that let any of 450 million EU citizens come and live here. Labour's 2024 manifesto ruled it out. In 2016, 17.4 million people voted to take back control of our borders. Now, barely 100 days into the job, the Prime Minister is drawing up options and calling the old system a "revolving door". Migration is already far beyond anything the public ever voted for. Opening yet another door is the last thing this country needs. Britain made its decision. Labour should respect it.

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THE GANGS COULD BE STOPPED Filmmaker Anthony Rubin and his brother, two cameramen from America with no local connections, managed to find out when the boats were leaving Calais and Dunkirk, get inside the camps and film the criminal gangs running the crossings. If two outsiders with a camera can do that, the French and British authorities certainly can. His verdict on GB News: these smuggling networks could be broken up, but from what he witnessed there is no serious effort to do it. Ministers keep promising to smash the gangs. The boats keep coming. Britain deserves a government that means it.