GMB's major migrant update sparks uproar - and it's bad news for Starmer

Good Morning Britain viewers have reacted as Keir Starmer is set to announce migrants granted asylum in the UK will no longer be automatically given settlement and family reunion rights under landmark policy changes. As part of the reforms, genuine refugees will not be returned to their home country and will be entitled to a "package of core protection should they receive a positive decision". However, they will now face a new route to settlement in the UK, which requires them to contribute, and they won't have the automatic right to family reunion.

During Thursday's instalment of Good Morning Britain, hosted by Susanna Reid and Ed Balls, the latter asked political correspondent Richard Gaisford: "So this is about addressing the pull factors which are pulling people across here to the UK?" Gaisford replied: "Yes, it's as much about addressing people's concerns as anything. You can see the concern that many people in the public have in the recent polling.

"Keir Starmer is actually already in Europe, in Copenhagen, and has been discussing European security and national security there. They have come to some sort of arrangement, it seems, to provide a drone wall to help protect Eastern Europe.

"But it is our own border security which is perhaps playing mostly on his mind, and this is why he stepped into this debate at the Labour Party conference."

He reiterated how Starmer stated there will be no automatic right for migrants to bring their families here, which "has been seen as a pull factor to many".

The report then cuts to a clip of a woman called Yudit Kibrom, who arrived in the UK in 2007 and discussed her experience as an asylum seeker.

She said: "I nearly died when I was coming to the UK. When you are coming here, you are coming to change your life and your family's life. So it can't be like, 'Oh you can't bring your family here, you can stay here, live here and be part of the United Kingdom, but you can't bring your family..."

The report sparked uproar among viewers on X, with one typing: "What specific criteria will be used to define 'exceptional circumstances' under which family reunification will still be permitted, and how will these criteria be applied consistently and transparently to avoid arbitrary decisions and potential human rights challenges?"

Another said: "It all sounds very Reformish, it looks like @reformparty_uk are setting the agenda. Farage leads and Starmer follows." A third added: "This is probably impossible under ECHR and other international laws and treaties." Someone else penned: "It's 20 years too late."

Good Morning Britain airs on weekdays from 6am on ITV and ITVX.