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HANSARDAsylum AccommodationI gently remind the Minister that the number of immigrants in asylum hotels has gone up since the general election. I recently visited an asylum hotel and saw bikes from…07 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI associate myself with the Home Secretary’s remarks about the terrorist atrocities perpetrated on 7/7. The 52 victims and their families of course remain in our prayers. The…07 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am, Mr Speaker. Will the Home Secretary finally admit that the only way to fix this situation is for there to be a removals deterrent whereby every single illegal immigrant is…07 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Home Secretary talks about stopping those dangerous crossings, but there have been record numbers on her watch as Home Secretary. Is the Home Secretary aware of the so-called…07 Jul 2025HANSARDEngagementsI do not see how the Deputy Prime Minister has the brass neck to claim that she has the situation under control when the numbers crossing the channel this year are the highest in…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEngagementsIt is vital that scandals like this are never again covered up because of the racial background of perpetrators. Baroness Casey’s report said, to use her words, that people who…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEngagementsSmearing campaigners who stand up for rape victims as being “far-right” is completely unacceptable, and the Prime Minister should never have said that. I commend his predecessor,…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEngagementsIf she wants to find out who has lost control of our borders, I suggest that she looks to her immediate right, because ever since the Home Secretary scrapped the Rwanda deterrent…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEngagementsThe Rwanda scheme never started. Illegal immigrants in Calais said before the election how much they wanted the Prime Minister to get elected because he would help them to get…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEngagementsI associate myself with the Deputy Prime Minister’s remarks about the tragic air crash in India, and of course about our dear colleagues Jo Cox and Sir David Amess. I also join…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEngagementsGoodness me, the Deputy Prime Minister has a cheek. Housing starts in quarter four last year went down—her mission to rebuild Britain is not going very well. She talks about…18 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI join the Home Secretary in paying tribute to the people and emergency services in Liverpool. On the Home Secretary’s watch, this year so far has been the worst in history for…02 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsImmigration is at a record level on the Home Secretary’s watch, but as usual she does not answer the question or take responsibility. Let me try this instead: it emerged yesterday…02 Jun 2025HANSARD ImmigrationYes, of course I would. A number of people have tragically lost their lives crossing the channel, and that is precisely why we need to stop these crossings entirely, as Australia…21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationI beg to move, That this House regrets that there have been a record-breaking number of small boat crossings, amounting to over 12,000 this year alone and a lack of action from…21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationI will talk a bit in a moment about the record of the last Government, but I have already said that for decades, under successive Governments—including the last one, but previous…21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationI will give way in a minute. In advancing the case that we have a problem with social cohesion and a lack of integration, I will present some evidence—it is not an assertion—in…21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationI will give way in just a moment. These figures illustrate that we have a problem with integration, and that is why we need to get these numbers dramatically down, until such time…21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationI do not think that the right hon. Gentleman was listening very carefully. I expressly said that highly skilled migrants do make a contribution and should be welcomed, and when I…21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationI think he should do that, because the British public have expressed very clear views on this issue, and if we cannot, in this House of all places, lay out the facts—published…21 May 2025