Here are 5 important things happening in the UK today, Monday (29 September 2025).
- Migrants will have to contribute or leave the UK: Migrants’ right to settle in the UK will be dependent on them not claiming benefits, Shabana Mahmood will declare on Monday. In her first speech to the Labour conference as Home Secretary, Mahmood will say that migrants must show they contribute to society in order to settle permanently in the UK. [Telegraph]
- Reeves warns businesses of Reform: Chancellor Rachel Reeves will on Monday urge business leaders to focus on the threat posed by Reform UK, as part of a fierce attack by the Labour leadership on Nigel Farage’s party and its “racist” immigration policy. Reeves will use her speech to the Labour conference in Liverpool to claim that Farage would go on a borrowing spree, disrupt the labour market and rip up an EU-UK trade deal. On Sunday, Starmer urged his party to prepare for the “fight of our lives” with Reform UK. [Financial Times]
- Guaranteed paid work for young people unemployed for 18 months: Young people who have been out of a job or education for 18 months will be offered a guaranteed paid work placement, Reeves is set to announce. Those who do not to take up the offer could face being stripped of their benefits. In her speech to Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool, the chancellor will promise “nothing less than the abolition of long-term youth unemployment”. [BBC]
- More than a million UK workers to gain more rights under the Employment Bill: Employers will be forced to offer more secure terms to more than a million workers if the employment bill going through parliament is implemented, according to research by a leading thinktank. The Work Foundation said analysis of 2023-24 data calculating the impact of a ban on zero-hours contracts and “day one” compensation after unfair dismissal – which are two key elements of the employment rights bill – showed 1.2 million workers would have been protected from “severe insecurity” in the workplace. [Guardian]
- On Monday, Oil was trading flat at $68.75. The pound is trading at $1.34, €1.15, and ¥9.59.
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