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On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. On the first page of the Bill, the Home Secretary has mad...
I am grateful for the point of order. This is not something on which the Chair can adjudicate, bu...
I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.
The British public know that border...
Does the Home Secretary think that the British public want to see children and
This is what the British people want to see: they want to stop people dying in the channel. That ...
I thank the Home Secretary for giving way so early in her speech. Is she personally satisfied tha...
I will go into this in detail, but yes, vulnerable people will be receiving appropriate safeguard...
Does the Home Secretary agree that when 70 Labour MPs, including the Leader of the Opposition, si...
My hon. Friend puts it very well. What we have here is naive do-gooders who would rather campaign...
I am going to make some progress.
The reality is that the system is simply unfair. It is un...
Does my right hon. Friend agree that in the last couple of years, when we have seen exponential g...
My right hon. Friend puts it very well. We now have a sophisticated, well resourced, multibillion...
I am going to make progress.
Despite the reasonable concerns that we have raised on several...
On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am sure you will agree with the Home Secretary that we ...
I think in this particular case it is a matter for the individual person making the speech. I wil...
I appreciate your instruction to all our colleagues, Mr Deputy Speaker.
The way to stop the...
As the Secretary of State probably knows, I chair the all-party parliamentary group on internatio...
We have a proud and extensive tradition of offering refuge to hundreds of thousands of people who...
Is the Home Secretary also worried that the criminal gangs that are exploiting people in this dre...
I am afraid that my right hon. Friend raises a very worrying fact about what we are seeing. When ...
People who are same-sex attracted and trans people are not covered by anti-discrimination laws in...
I am sure the hon. and learned Lady has read the High Court judgment, which is an exhaustive and ...
I have to make some progress. I have taken quite a lot of interventions, I am afraid.
Will my right hon. and learned Friend give way?
I will take one last intervention.
I am very grateful to the Home Secretary. I find it odd that so many Opposition Members are tryin...
Order. I want not just temperate language but temperate behaviour.
On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. Can you advise on how we might correct the record? The pe...
Further to that point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. No one in this House wishes to cause any offen...
Order. I have a couple of points before we resume. Interventions are now eating into the time all...
I agree wholeheartedly with my hon. Friend the Member for Gloucester (Richard Graham). He is abso...
I am going to make some progress. A lot of Members want to contribute to this debate.
The U...
The former Home Secretary, the right hon. Member for Witham (Priti Patel), said:
“Anyone wh...
I have to correct the right hon. Lady on the fallacy under which she is operating. We are returni...
I wonder if my right hon. and learned Friend would make a point of clarification. She has implied...
We have an extensive system of screening for everyone who arrives in the UK via a small boat. Tha...
I am sorry, but I am going to have to make some progress. When our world-leading Modern Slavery A...
Can the Home Secretary tell this House how many of that 17,000 increase was made up of British pe...
What we have seen is that a large and growing proportion of modern slavery claims have been made ...
The Home Secretary has just admitted that Rwanda does not have thousands of places. She will know...
The right hon. Member should read our agreement with Rwanda before she makes a comment such as th...
I beg to move an amendment, to leave out from “That” to the end of the Question and add:
“t...
I will give way to the hon. Member if he will now support our proposals for a cross-border police...
I actually have another question. Would the right hon. Member explain why the Leader of the Oppos...
Immigration law is important, but the problem is that, at the moment, a huge amount of immigratio...
I am grateful to the right hon. Lady for giving way. I am also grateful for the kind comments tha...
The former Prime Minister and former Home Secretary is experienced enough to know that that is no...
I will give way to the former Prime Minister; she and I have asked each other questions for so ma...
I am grateful to the right hon. Lady, but does she not accept that, between the late 1990s and th...
The important point that the former Prime Minister addresses is that in the late ’90s there was a...
Does my right hon. Friend, like me, get really annoyed when she hears Government Members talk abo...
My hon. Friend is right that the Conservatives have to take responsibility for 13 years in govern...
The UK was one of the instigators of the 1951 refugee convention, because before the war the UK G...
My hon. Friend is right. Those are damning words that we have heard from the Board of Deputies an...
indicated dissent.
The Immigration Minister shakes his head, but he said in a statement in December in this House th...
I give way first to my hon. Friend.
I am pleased with the moderate way in which my right hon. Friend is putting forward a very sound ...
My hon. Friend makes an important point. In order to have co-operation on return agreements, on a...
I will give way to the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas) and then to the hon. M...
Does the right hon. Lady share my deep concern about the placeholder clause 49, which seeks to le...
I think it adds to the chaos within this piece of legislation that the Government have not worked...
I give way to the hon. Member for Eastleigh, who has been patient. I will then make some progress...
As is her right, the shadow Home Secretary is outlining her objection to this piece of legislatio...
Indeed, I am very happy to. I hope the hon. Member will support our proposal for a cross-border p...
My focus goes back to clause 49, which looks specifically at interim measures of the Strasbourg c...
Perhaps the hon. Gentleman should have put that question to the Home Secretary, because he appear...
A responsible Opposition must have a plan. We all agree that we have to stop these boats, but the...
The right hon. Member is just kidding himself if he thinks that any of the Government’s plan is a...
I am most grateful to the right hon. Lady for giving way. Which parts of France are such that peo...
As the hon. Member knows, the majority of people who are seeking asylum and arrive in France stay...
Does the shadow Home Secretary share my concern that there was not pre-legislative consultation w...
My hon. Friend is right, and the Children’s Commissioner is appalled by some of the measures in t...
Will the right hon. Lady accept that many on the Government side of the House—me included—will vo...
I do recognise that there are Members on the Government Benches who are deeply troubled by many o...
Order. Theresa May will get six minutes, then we are on to the Scottish National party spokespers...
Having been Home Secretary for six years I understand the pressures to deal with illegal migratio...
I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for mentioning human trafficking. I conducted a Court of Ap...
I am grateful to my right hon. and learned Friend for his work and his recognition of the differe...
This refugee ban Bill is nothing but an abhorrent dog whistle, and my colleagues and I on the SNP...
The hon. Lady mentions safe and legal routes. I am very keen that we need greater definition in t...
The hon. Gentleman knows that the vast majority of people who come over are accepted as asylum se...
Will the hon. Lady give way?
If the hon. Gentleman would like to give me some experience from his constituents of how difficul...
The hon. Lady is speaking of safe and legal routes. Given that there are more than 100 million di...
If the hon. Gentleman knew anything at all, he would know that my Glasgow Central constituency ha...
My hon. Friend is indeed right. The Erskine Bridge hotel is potentially the largest such hotel in...
I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend’s sentiments. We should all be very worried about the rise...
Order. There is a six-minute limit on the next two speakers, and then the limit will be three min...
As I listen to this debate I, frankly, get more and more depressed. What we hear is an artificial...
Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that, if the Government were to look at proposed new ...
My hon. Friend is right. It is going to be vital that there is clear guidance. We have been here ...
To follow up on that point about the issue of tone, despite the strong views held about this Bill...
Countries mean more than their borders. National character, shared heritage and the institutions ...
I have to say that the right hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Sir John Hayes) make...
Many in this House want to say that the Government are inciting people’s worst instincts on immig...
The words of the hon. Member for Boston and Skegness (Matt Warman) must have some meaning for him...
indicated dissent.
The Minister shakes his head. If he tried getting out of Afghanistan, he would see what the issue...
I echo the words of my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for South Swindon (Sir Robert Buc...
Does my hon. Friend accept that a number of Conservative Members support the Bill tonight on the ...
I have great faith in the legal input of the Attorney General and the advice of senior Treasury c...
Just when I think that I cannot be shocked any further by this Government’s inhumanity, they try ...
We are a rich country—the world’s fifth largest economy. We have international obligations, and i...
Listening to the hon. Member for Gedling (Tom Randall), it is difficult to avoid the conclusion t...
I rise to make a simple point, because in the time available that is all we can do. I will draw a...
We need to tone down the debate. Let us be clear: no one on the Opposition Benches wants the smal...
We are very lucky to live in a country people want to escape to, not a country people want to esc...
As Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, I will focus on aspects of the Bill that potenti...
I fundamentally disagree with almost everything that the hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh So...
Thank you, Mr Speaker—it is an unexpected pleasure.
I will be voting against the Bill today...
Both the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary have made it clear that tackling illegal immigrati...
Let me remind the hon. Member for Blackpool South (Scott Benton) that the reason our public servi...
This country, including the people in my constituency of Hyndburn and Haslingden, is amazingly ki...
It is frankly frightening that we are at the second stage of a Bill that begins with an effective...
Order. In fairness, I want to get everybody in, so please help each other and help me.
8.32...
Sovereign states have a duty to protect their borders from the illegal movement of drugs, contrab...
I despair at the tone of this debate and the dog whistle, the false argument—we have just heard i...
I rise to support this policy because I believe it is fair, sensible and in keeping with the UK r...
This dehumanising Bill will not stop boats, but it is no exaggeration to say that it will destroy...
All western countries have immigration controls. They have rules and a system that people have to...
The Government and their immediate predecessor have not tried to formulate workable policy on thi...
I have been trying for two years to get a young girl, Maira Shahbaz, into this country. Aged 14, ...
Back in 2019, the company that provides accommodation for asylum seekers in Northern Ireland hous...
I entered politics in 1999 and, since then, having become a Member of this place in 2019, I have ...
I served on the Nationality and Borders Bill Committee, where we were told time and again that th...
Our immigration and asylum system must be fair and able to support people fleeing violence and pe...
This immoral, deeply cruel and divisive Bill breaks international law, rides roughshod over human...
I will support the Bill this evening. The whole point of the Bill—its overriding objective—is to ...
My constituency is the most diverse in the entire country; 80% of our community has heritage from...
Madam Deputy Speaker, I will finish simply by saying that if the desire is to prevent children fr...
The hon. Member knows that you do not address directly other hon. Members.
9.12 pm
After that extraordinary contribution, which mirrored a number of contributions we have heard, le...
Gary Lineker and others are right to caution about the use of language in this debate, but I thin...
I am very grateful for the chance to say a few words in this debate. This is an issue that has be...
I wonder what our international partners across the globe are thinking about this Bill and this d...
The public expect action on small boats and illegal migration. The main issues raised with me are...
We can agree or disagree with Gary Lineker on his choice of words, but he was perfectly entitled ...
For my constituents, the Bill is long awaited. They want us to crack down on the horrific people ...
We have heard a shamefully grim level of debate from some Government Members. The debate has lack...
Order. It is obvious that not everyone will get in. The final speakers—they know who they are—hav...
Away from the noise and heat, there are a number of elements of the Bill that are to be welcomed ...
Last year, child poverty nearly doubled, workers’ wages fell at the fastest rate in decades and t...
I will continue the trend of highlights without commentary. Of the 45,000 people who crossed the ...
The Government have failed to build a system that takes on the refugee and migrant-related challe...
Because this has been such an incredibly well-subscribed debate, in the time available to me I wi...
This has been a passionate debate characterised by many excellent speeches, and I commend among o...
Will the Minister give way?
No, I will not.
Nor could the shadow Home Secretary explain what these migrants, the overwh...