Gavin Grey: UK correspondent on the UK Government tightening rules for migrants seeking asylum

The UK Government is set to introduce tighter rules for migrants granted asylum bringing their families to the UK.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is set to unveil new  criteria for family members - including tougher English language standards and access to sufficient funds.

UK correspondent Gavin Grey says immigration is likely to become a key talking point at the next election, and the Government's feeling pressure from Reform's popularity.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Devin Gray, UK correspondents with US. Hello, Geven, Hi there right,
So what are these rules around migrants that we're expecting now, Heather.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
It just seems, doesn't it. Every week the government is
coming out with a new announcement. They're definitely feeling the
upstart party of Reform UK breathing down their throats and
they're definitely beginning to sense that migration is going to
be a key topic whenever the next general election comes.
So today the government is going to announce that they
are going to tighten the criteria for family members to

(00:33):
join any migrant granted asylum. This is something incidentally, which
Reform UK has been talking about for some time that
the details are just two lacks, so it's quite likely
that they're going to toughen up those criteria, including tougher
English language standards and access to sufficient funds and also
outline reforms.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Geven, are you with us?

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Ah?

Speaker 1 (00:59):
You are reasons carry on?

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Just that's right said. Sometimes these reforms signs to the
asylum application decisions are pretty odd and.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Gavin, we I'm sorry to do this, but your line
is so dodgy and do you want to see if
you can fix this quickly for us. Just yeah, that's
that was definitely the robots getting involved, there, wasn't it?
Hey quickly while he's while we're just trying to fix
that up really quickly. What about this one. There's a
chap in Australia, Melbourne specifically, who was looking for his
misplaced passport at home. He found his passport eventually, but

(01:38):
who also found a whole bunch of lotto tickets when
he found his passport. So he took them down, as
you always should do when you find a whole bunch
of lotter tickets, got them are scanned. One of them
was worth Australia one million dollars. Bought it for drawl
draw in December twenty seven last year. Two hundred and
forty four days later he cashed it in one million bucks.

(01:59):
Find you take it, go and scan it. Gevin? A
you with us again?

Speaker 2 (02:03):
I am indeed.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
I hope that's better, head, Oh so much better. Thank
you for doing that, Kevin. Listen, So what happened with
Queen Camilla.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah, so we now are being told, according to a
new role book that's come out, not being denied incidentally
by any of the royals, that Queen Camella was the
victim of an attempted indecent assault as a teenager. She
fought off her attacker using the heel of her shoe.
It's being reported now this was when the Queen was
sixteen or seventeen years old, and it happened on a

(02:31):
train in the way to Paddington station in the west
of London. The man is reported to have been touching
the teenager and known then as Camilla Shanned, when she
simply took her shoe off and hit it with him.
We have never had this confirm from her, and it
said that she doesn't want to make a big thing
of it because she doesn't want a tract from some
of the work that she does around domestic violence, and

(02:53):
you know, saying that she wasn't really a victim sort
of thing. But yeah, first time we'd ever heard this
story come out. It's reported that she first told Boris
Johnson when he was Mayor of London about it. It's
sort of kept quiet and then it's sort of surfaced
in this new book.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
But what I mean this seems to me the kind
of thing that this humanizes a royal and it also
you know, empowers women. So why would they keep it secret.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, I just think it's that thing about this isn't
about me. It's not about my personal past because I'm
very privileged. It's about other people. And she feels very
strongly about the support being needed for domestic violence victims.
And I suppose by talking about this her self. You're right,
it's a double edged sword. Well, people think, oh, she's
always on about herself, poor Camillo. You know, we'll hardly
poor Camilla and others will think, well, yeah, there we go.

(03:38):
It just goes to show that she's been attacked as well.
And certainly I think they will help. The royal family
will hope that this kind of story does actually destigmatize
past help for too many young girls suffering things that
they did a few years ago.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, a very good point that you make, Gevin. Thank you,
Thank you for that, and thanks for coming back on
the line for us. It's Kevin Grauer, UK correspondent.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
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