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HANSARDEuropean Union: UK MembershipI remind Labour Members that the petition actually reads: “Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible”. There are two key parts to it: “as a…24 Mar 2025HANSARDEuropean Union: UK MembershipWhat the Minister has just said will come as a crushing blow to all the Europhiles in the Labour party that we have heard from—no ambition for the single market or the customs…24 Mar 2025HANSARDEuropean Union: UK MembershipIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir John. I have listened very carefully to all the speeches today. Some were fine; some were perhaps not so fine. And I have to…24 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)I have studied this measure closely. Conditions change within the countries that people leave, and asylum status and human rights records change accordingly. Is the hon. Gentleman…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)It is not a holiday; it is a funeral.18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eleventh sitting)It is a pleasure to once again to serve under you as Chair, Dr Murrison. When I look at the Tory amendments in their totality, they are quite frankly an absolute and utter…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)We really cannot let them away with this, because it is just cruelty personified. Would the hon. Gentleman not make every effort and take every risk to return to his country of…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eleventh sitting)I rise to speak to new clause 43 on age determination by the Home Office. The one thing we can agree on with the Conservative Front Benchers is that my new clause could not be…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)I do not want to detain the Committee for long with this amendment, but this is just another abhorrent amendment from the warped imagination of the Conservative party. I do not…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am grateful to the Minister for her response to my new clause 43, but a lot of what she claims is in it is not actually there—I hope she accepts that. Those of us who visit…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eleventh sitting)He doesn’t know!18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)While the Minister is on her feet, could she perhaps ask the Opposition spokesperson whether he actually means hotels?18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)Just to clarify, I think the hon. Lady is saying clearly that what she intends to do is to take decisions about immigration out of the hands of judges, and leave them in the hands…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)I am struggling to understand this new clause. There are a number of reasons why other countries may not be able co-operate with the UK on immigration and visa cases—it could be…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)I am compelled again to rise in opposition to what is probably the most egregious of all the new clauses that we are having to consider in today’s marshalled groups. The hon.…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)I was not going to speak to the new clause; I was just going to let the hon. Gentleman drone on, in the hope that we could possibly get away on Thursday morning, but I have been…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)This afternoon seems to be a bit of a Lib Dem fest because of the new clauses tabled by the hon. Member for Woking. There is nothing wrong with that; in fact, I very much approve…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)We know those jobs are underpaid, and that is why so few people in the general community whom the hon. Lady would class as British-born are prepared to do them. We are dependent…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)I rise in support of the new clauses, particularly new clause 18. There have been a number of references to ECAT throughout our proceedings. New clause 18 would give clarity and…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Ninth sitting)I will try to be as brief as possible, because I understand that we have got a time constraint. Fresh Talent possibly did do that, but it would be different this time round…13 Mar 2025