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Proceeding contribution from David Lammy (Labour) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 26 April 2022. It occurred during Debate on Ukraine.

My hon. Friend is completely right. As the world recovers from a pandemic that the global south is still in the midst of, and as the world faces rising food prices and rising inflation, it is extraordinary that we heard the Secretary of State say that we would have to wait until the spring. If one went outside, one might think it was the beginning of summer. Where is the strategy? We need to see it.

The latest figures suggest that the UK has issued 70,000 visas for those displaced and fleeing Ukraine. The Secretary of State will know—she will no doubt have got this from the emails coming into her own constituency postbag—that there are still thousands of families saying that they want to offer a home who are still waiting to be connected by her colleague the Home Secretary. The rhetoric is not meeting the ambition of the British people.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
712 cc483-669 
Session
2021-22
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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