Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Marco Longhi Excerpts
Monday 25th April 2022

(2 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Tom Pursglove Portrait Tom Pursglove
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The hon. Gentleman clearly did not pay much attention to the statement last week and the responses given. The British people deserve to know what his alternative is. I would politely suggest there is none.

Marco Longhi Portrait Marco Longhi (Dudley North) (Con)
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I thank the Home Secretary, the Minister and all her team for bringing about the so-called Rwanda plan. I know the whole of Dudley is behind her, as is the rest of the country—unlike the Labour party, which has no plan. I ask the Home Secretary and her team to continue with the same steely resolve that I know she must have applied to get here as they move on to delivery and implementation.

Tom Pursglove Portrait Tom Pursglove
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I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his support for the policies we are bringing forward. He recognises the gravity and importance of the issues we are dealing with. We will not rest while people continue to put their lives in the hands of evil criminal gangs, whose only concern is to take a profit from those individuals. They do not care whether people get here safely. That has to stop, we have a plan to stop it and we are going to get on and deliver it.