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HANSARD ImmigrationNo. There are two main factors that make today’s challenges different from the past. The first is technology. The physical distances between nations and continents may not have…21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationNo. As this Government have made clear consistently, this is just the start. We need to go further, and we will.21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationNo, I have given way enough. I will carry on and make my points, because we do not have much time. Since the general election, we have established the Border Security Command to…21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationNo. They can sit there after all this effort and all these gimmicks and pretend to the British people and Members of this House that the Rwanda scheme was ready to go and would…21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationThe Conservatives—who conveniently called an early election so that the Rwanda scheme would never start, after spending years saying that even perpetrating the idea of a Rwanda…21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationWhen we came into office, we ended the Rwanda scheme. The scheme was about deporting people, processing their asylum in another country and never letting them back here. […21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationIt is important that all of us acknowledge the humanity of people who come to our country to work, and the contribution that they make. But we also have to have rules: we have to…21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationI thank the hon. Gentleman. It is very important to remember that we thrive—as we always have in our history—with a tolerant, multicultural society in which we strive to…21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationI do not think that the two quotes are incompatible with each other. Our White Paper sets out the route forward. Net migration is coming down. The legacy that we inherited from…21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationWhen we discuss migration policy, net migration and legal or illegal immigration, it is really important to remember that we are talking about human beings, that we should treat…21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationCollective responsibility apparently never used to matter to the Conservative party, but if we remember some of the history we will know that that was actually true. I want…21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationI am talking about 20-week periods, which feature in the Opposition’s motion. I am talking about what happened in a 20-week period, when—just to go back over it—the shadow Home…21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationNo; I am going to make some of these points. We should all remember that the shadow Home Secretary was once credited as being the economic guru behind Liz Truss’s premiership.…21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationNo. There were 30,000 arrivals in the space of 20 weeks— not 220 or even 500 boats, but 670 boats. How did that happen? The Conservatives were all too busy fighting among…21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationLet me finish the sentence. No, I will not give way. I think it is perfectly reasonable to point out what the Conservatives’ record is, when they have come to the Chamber to try…21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationI beg to move an amendment, to leave out from “House” to en and insert “notes that 127,896 people crossed the Channel while the previous Government was in office, as a criminal…21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationNo. [ Interruption. ]21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationI am happy to give way to the hon. Gentleman now, because he stood up when I got to the end of a sentence.21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationI think it is perfectly reasonable to point out the chaos that there was in 14 years of Conservative government and the shadow Home Secretary’s record in these areas—21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationLet me finish the sentence. Too often, the Opposition parties—some of the Opposition parties; not all of them—perpetuate a narrative that is increasingly dangerous. Let us not…21 May 2025