Illegal Migration Bill

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Horam always talks a lot of good sense, and I am pleased to be abl...

My Lords, I am following four consecutive Conservative speakers and, with respect, I have more in...

My Lords, I think we can all agree that this is a complicated and contentious issue that generate...

My Lords, in opening this debate the Minister said:

“Our broken asylum system is costing th...

My Lords, as other speakers said, we now live in an age of mass migration. As my noble friend Lor...

My Lords, I agree with little in the Bill, other than the broad premise that we must control the ...

My Lords, the more I listen to the debate—and particularly to my noble friend Lord Carlile of Ber...

My Lords, as always, it is a great pleasure to be part of a debate in your Lordships’ House, whic...

My Lords, it is a bit much being lectured on what is and is not constitutional when this Bill, li...

My Lords, one of the advantages of speaking relatively late on in a debate such as this is that i...

My Lords, I too fully support this necessary Bill. I thank the trade unions UNISON and the RMT fo...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the wisdom of my noble friend Lord Balfe.

Defence of t...

My Lords, it is good that one thing seems to unite the whole House, and that is the fact that we ...

My Lords, “Stop the boats” is a worthy aim, and the Prime Minister is right to consider it a prio...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Lord, Lord Kirkhope, who made one of the best speech...

My Lords, there is a legitimate debate to be had about how the UK manages its borders, and like e...

My Lords, it is no easy matter to follow so many of your Lordships, who have raised some difficul...

My Lords, one of the few compensations of speaking so late is that it enables me to try to respon...

My Lords, one of the striking things about this interesting debate is that, in many cases, noble ...

My Lords, I declare my interest as an immigrant— a proud immigrant. This country has given me so ...

My Lords, it is a privilege to speak following the noble Lord, Lord Bilimoria, particularly on th...

Your Lordships’ House will have an opportunity to scrutinise this very large and complex Bill and...

My Lords, it has been a long day and I will not detain the House for too long before the winding-...

My Lords, I thank the House for allowing me to speak in the gap.

Only days ago, the King ma...

I thank noble Lords for being provided with the opportunity to speak in the gap. It is an honour ...

My Lords, the House will forgive me for not namechecking individual noble Lords. I have heard it ...

My Lords, I too will not attempt to namecheck everyone who has spoken in this debate. It has been...

I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken. It is a measure of the importance of the issue ...

My Lords, our reasoned amendment sets out why this House should decline to give the Bill a Second...

I am sure the noble Lord would not want to mislead the House; he has obviously looked into that m...

The noble Lord will know exactly what Erskine May says about the Motion that was passed, which is...

Moved by

Lord Murray of Blidworth