My Lords, I thank my noble friend. I agree that that is what we hope to achieve with the Green Paper as we move towards legislation. Historically, going back 30 years or more, there have been knee-jerk reactions at times to the whole issue of asylum seekers. Now we are getting a balanced way forward on tackling that issue and how it affects the United Kingdom.
Citizenship
Proceeding contribution from
Lord West of Spithead
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 20 February 2008.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Citizenship.
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