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HANSARDImmigration and Asylum BillFor the benefit of the House and for clarification, does the Home Secretary intend to implement her proposed ILR changes via amendments to the Bill, or via the immigration rules…13 Jul 2026HANSARDImmigration and Asylum BillI will give way again, but I want to make a bit of progress first. There will be plenty of other opportunities later. I will briefly touch on indefinite leave to remain, which is…13 Jul 2026HANSARDImmigration and Asylum BillI entirely agree with my right hon. Friend. When it comes to foreign criminals, and people who enter this country illegally, having exited a safe place, namely France, I do not…13 Jul 2026HANSARDDeath of Ann WiddecombeI thank the Home Secretary for advance sight of her statement. I start by offering my deepest condolences to Ann’s family and friends. She will be terribly missed. Ann sat as the…13 Jul 2026HANSARDImmigration and Asylum BillI beg to move an amendment, to leave out from “That” to the end of the Question and add: “this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Immigration and Asylum Bill, while…13 Jul 2026HANSARDImmigration and Asylum BillOur membership of the ECHR has less effect on deportations to Europe, because it is hard to make an ECHR-based claim if the receiving country is in Europe. However, when it comes…13 Jul 2026HANSARDImmigration and Asylum BillThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. For many nationalities that cross the English channel by small boat—Afghan, Iranian, Iraqi, Eritrean and Sudanese, to name just six or…13 Jul 2026HANSARDImmigration and Asylum BillI agree that the situation in countries such as Afghanistan creates large movements of people—that is correct—and fixing problems at source is clearly the best thing to do.…13 Jul 2026HANSARDImmigration and Asylum BillI am sure that the hon. Gentleman knows nothing about Facebook clips, but let me be honest: mistakes were made in the past, and the policies that we have now developed, under new…13 Jul 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsMr Speaker, I join you in paying tribute to Ann Widdecombe. She was a formidable campaigner who served with huge integrity. She will be missed. I know that the whole House…13 Jul 2026HANSARDImmigration and Asylum BillLet me finish the point. The truth is that tinkering like this does not work when we have very expansive rights-based conventions. The only way of fixing this properly is to exit…13 Jul 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Home Secretary was not as quite as clear as she was previously. Vile rapist Shabir Ahmed must be deported back to Pakistan along with all eligible rape gang perpetrators.…13 Jul 2026HANSARDImmigration and Asylum BillWhen the ECHR was first conceived and entered into as a treaty in 1950, it was developed for very good reasons. It was designed to avoid a repetition of the horrors of the second…13 Jul 2026HANSARDImmigration and Asylum BillI will take one last intervention before finishing.13 Jul 2026HANSARDImmigration and Asylum BillFirst of all, I do not think that Winston Churchill would ever have envisaged that the ECHR, which he helped create, would lead us to being unable to control our borders.…13 Jul 2026HANSARDImmigration and Asylum BillI need to finish. While I agree with the diagnoses that the Home Secretary eloquently set out in her speech, the measures that she proposes simply will not work. I know that…13 Jul 2026HANSARDBelfast: Violent DisorderMonday night’s attack was disgusting and barbaric. The victim suffered serious injuries to his neck and lost an eye. I am sure that the thoughts of the whole House are with him. I…10 Jun 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Home Secretary still gives no clear answer. We have repeatedly raised serious concerns with the Government’s Islamophobia definition. South Wales police has now instructed…08 Jun 2026HANSARDIllegal MigrationNigerian illegal immigrant Gift Oladele was recently jailed for the brutal rape of a teenage girl. He dragged her into isolated woods, leaving her terrified, and she now has…08 Jun 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe “Police Anti-Racism Commitment”, a copy of which I have here, published in March 2025 by the National Police Chiefs’ Council, asks police to reverse engineer the same arrest…08 Jun 2026