The Minister will be aware that there is a massive range of legal opinion and that the opinion of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is that that is not the case at all when a lot of what is going on in part two of the Bill is in flagrant breach of the refugee convention. If the Minister is so certain that the powers do not breach the refugee convention, what is the harm to him of accepting the amendment?
Nationality and Borders Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Stuart C McDonald
(Scottish National Party)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 22 March 2022.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Nationality and Borders Bill.
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