Watch live: Home Secretary to announce new 'safe asylum' route for migrants

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Shabana Mahmood will announce the reopening of a scheme to resettle refugees in the UK as she says “fairness” is at the heart of her vision for the Home Office. It will come as the Home Secretary focuses on safe and legal refugee routes to the UK in her Labour Party conference speech. The UK resettlement scheme will reopen immediately, with around a quarter of those admitted to the UK under it expected to be Palestinians and women and girls from Afghanistan. It marks a shift after the closure of the Afghan resettlement route last year. Hundreds are expected to come to Britain under the UK resettlement scheme and three community sponsorship routes at first, growing to the “low thousands” as levels of illegal migration fall, and with a cap set each year. They will be put on a five-year path to permanent settlement. Most refugees admitted under the UK resettlement scheme will be referred through the UN refugee agency UNHCR, with Palestinians coming through the International Refugee

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