Might the Minister find time before he finishes to comment on what I thought was the most significant sentence uttered by the Home Secretary this afternoon? She said that the Government now believe that a five-year period of work should not automatically lead to citizenship just because one has been here for five years. That breaks the link between coming here to work and growing the population by immigration.
Immigration Controls
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Field of Birkenhead
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 21 October 2008.
It occurred during Opposition day on Immigration Controls.
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