My Lords, my noble friend is being asked a lot about numbers. I know that many people here are concerned about this policy and think about the effect it will have on people when they want to come here, because we want to dissuade those who are being trafficked and hurt. Really, the numbers we should be considering are of those who drown on the route here. I do not want to see any more women, children or men drowning in the English Channel. If this policy helps to reduce those numbers, does my noble friend not agree that we should be pushing that and ensuring that those numbers go down?
UK-Rwanda Partnership
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Ranger of Northwood
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Thursday, 7 December 2023.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on UK-Rwanda Partnership.
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