Channel Crossings in Small Boats Debate

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Department: Home Office

Channel Crossings in Small Boats

Tom Hunt Excerpts
Monday 22nd November 2021

(2 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Priti Patel Portrait Priti Patel
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The hon. Lady can shake her head, but it is also important that we deliver safe and legal routes in a fair way, so that those individuals who are fleeing persecution are given the support they seek.

Tom Hunt Portrait Tom Hunt (Ipswich) (Con)
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Does the Home Secretary share my surprise that the Opposition have decided to bring this urgent question forward, because of course not only have they voted against the Nationality and Borders Bill, but they are also voting against the Judicial Review and Courts Bill, which in ending Cart judicial review will make it far easier to deport illegal immigrants?

Priti Patel Portrait Priti Patel
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Well, I do not think I have much to add. My hon. Friend has absolutely made the case for voting for that Bill and for the reforms that we are bringing in, and the Labour party is behaving like a computer that says no all the time.