Global Migration Challenge

Edward Leigh Excerpts

Tuesday 19th April 2022 Commons Chamber

[Priti Patel]

I hear the hon. Lady’s case, but doing nothing is not an option when people are dying in the channel.

[Sir Edward Leigh (Gainsborough) (Con)]

Following the previous question, does my right hon. Friend agree that the un-godly thing to do would be to do nothing and have a mass drowning of children in the channel this winter? Given that there is no end of people who want to cross the channel—however many we let in legally—is it not morally incumbent on those who oppose the policy to explain to the House how they will break the business model that once someone gets here, they are put in a hotel and never sent back?

[Priti Patel]

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right.