This follows on from what my hon. Friend the Member for North-East Bedfordshire (Alistair Burt) said, and it leaves aside the question of asylum. When we proposed—I was the poor muggins who had to take it through—to oblige employers to check up on the right to work of the people whom they were employing, we were cried down by Labour Members, who said that it was unreasonable. Everything has changed. The tone has changed. Does the hon. Gentleman recognise that Labour Members have not contributed much to that change?
Immigration Controls
Proceeding contribution from
Ann Widdecombe
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 21 October 2008.
It occurred during Opposition day on Immigration Controls.
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