By Helena Vesty

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Legal migrants must contribute to society to earn the right to stay for good, new Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is announcing. Tomorrow, (September 29), the Home Secretary will set out a series of conditions for gaining “indefinite leave to remain”. The right to stay for good could be dependent on being in work, making National Insurance contributions, not taking any benefits payments, learning English to a high standard, having a spotless criminal record, and giving back to their local community through, for example, volunteering. Sign up to the MEN Politics newsletter Due North here In her first speech to Labour Party Conference, Ms Mahmood is expected to set out the proposed changes. A consultation on these proposals will be launched later this year, says Labour. The government is hailing the move as a ‘marked shift from the situation today’, saying ‘t his sets a clear dividing line between the government and Reform – whose divisive plan for indefinite leave to remain would force those who have lived here for decades to leave the country, breaking up families’. The government adds that, currently, “indefinite leave to remain” is often automatic at five years when basic conditions are met. In the Immigration White Paper, published in May, the government announced this would be lifted to a baseline of ten years. Settlement must then be earned, says the Home Department. Some, based on their contribution or skills, could earn earlier settlement. Others, who have made a lesser contribution, will only earn leave to remain later, or not at all, according to the government. This announcement will come midway through Labour’s annual conference, where the government is setting out how it will deliver a programme of ‘national renewal, which will make working people better off’. Labour says it is keen to ‘reject the quick fix solutions offered by Reform and the Tories, who want to divide the country and return Britain to the path of decline’. Ms Mahmood will argue in her speech that her ‘toughness on secure borders, fair migration and safe streets are essential components of an “open, generous, tolerant” country’, Labour has said. She will warn party members that “you won’t always like what I do”. But while she will be a “tough home secretary”, she will also be a “tough Labour Home Secretary, fighting for a vision of this country that is distinctly our own”, the government has revealed. Ms Mahmood will use the speech to argue that the last Conservative government ‘lost control of our borders, ran a failed open border experiment on migration, and left communities feeling unsafe on their own streets’. She is expected to talk of her fear that, as a result, many in this country feels things are “spinning out of control”, and will say she fears “patriotism, a force for good, is turning into something smaller, something more like ethno-nationalism.” She will then pitch her role as part of a fight to “keep the country together” and will warn that if the government does not succeed, “working people will turn away from us – the party that for over a hundred years has been their party – and seek solace in the false promises of Farage.” Get news, views and analysis of the biggest stories with the daily Mancunian Way newsletter – sign up here In a personal speech, Ms Mahmood will touch on her parents’ experience arriving in this country, and why the acceptance of migrants depends on their contribution to local communities. The Home Secretary will talk about her own experiences as the victim of shoplifting, while working behind the till of her family’s corner-shop as a child, and why that inspired her to cracking down on street-level crime, the government has shared. Also in tomorrow’s speech, Mahmood will launch a new ‘winter of action’ to tackle shoplifting and anti-social behaviour during retailer’s busiest weeks of the year. This will see police forces across the country working in partnership with local businesses, aiming to reach hundreds of locations, the government has announced. Labour says this follows on the success of the ‘summer of action’, earlier this year, which saw a crackdown on street-level crime in 600 locations across the country. This saw more visible police patrols, more undercover operations, more fines, protective orders and arrests, the government claims.