Dinner debate: migrants’ settlement rules and Elon Musk

Wall Street Turkish - International (English) · Oct 25, 2026 · 1m

Eshwar, a 35-year-old manager who moved from India to the UK in 2022, and Georgia, a 26-year-old politics and refugee-rights worker, had dinner in Reading. They discussed proposed changes by Shabana Mahmood to settlement rules for migrants. Georgia said the proposals would increase the qualifying period to 15 years for some groups and argued it was unfair to change the rules for people already in the country. She said there should be exemptions for teachers, health and social care workers, and jobs with no British workers to fill them.

Eshwar said he considered extending the period from five…