I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. In a previous group, the noble Baroness the Minister—I was very grateful to her—sought to make distinctions between immigration and asylum protection; I think that was quite important. To be now almost resiling from that and suggesting, in answer to a previous intervention, that we are going to reinterpret the refugee convention—to respond to the millions of people who voted for Mr Johnson’s Government on the basis of controlling immigration—is a little troubling. I do not think I am alone in the Committee in being so troubled.
Nationality and Borders Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Chakrabarti
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 8 February 2022.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Nationality and Borders Bill.
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2021-22
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