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HANSARDAsylum PolicyI will clarify a point of fact. The hon. Member said that I describe myself as a child of immigrants. It is not a description; it is just a statement of fact. Everything else she…17 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyI do believe it complies with those principles. At the moment at the end of the five years there is already supposed to be a safe country review. We will bring that forward and…17 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyWe already do safe country reviews, and we would seek to continue that. Those reviews, and our position on different countries, are publicly available; in fact, most pass through…17 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyAll the measures in the asylum policy statement are compliant with the Windsor framework.17 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyI absolutely agree about the contribution that migrants and refugees make to our country. I am making these reforms precisely because I can see a broken system that is creating…17 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyLet me assure the hon. Member that I am making changes that I will ensure will work. I make no apology for disincentivising routes into this country that basically make people…17 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyIt is this Government who are exiting hotels. We will do so—it is a manifesto commitment —by the end of the Parliament, and I intend to bring that forward as much as possible. Let…17 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyWe are moving to a system of age verification, based on artificial intelligence modelling, which we believe is effective in verifying someone’s true age. Let me assure my hon.…17 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyThe Government always play their full part in peace processes wherever we can, and we have put our shoulder to the wheel on the delicate diplomatic efforts required to bring…17 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyI thank my hon. Friend for her comments and her question. Let me assure her that I know that the way to build public confidence in the new system is not just to announce the…17 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyI should not be surprised to see the hon. Gentleman indulging in misinformation. In my statement I gave the example of somebody who has £800 a month from their family, has enough…17 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyI have a lot of time and high regard for my hon. Friend. What I would say is that he should not allow mischief making by those he names to throw him or our party off course, and I…17 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyI think there were two questions. The first was on the backlog of appeals, which I recognise is far too high. That is why we will create a new independent appeals system so that…17 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyWe will work with local partners, councils, philanthropists and other charitable organisations as we develop safe and legal routes. As I said in my statement, they will take three…17 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyAgain, forgive me, but I am not going to take any lessons from the party that gave us hotel use in the first place and is now lecturing me about hotel exit. It is a manifesto…17 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. There is nothing humane or socialist—or, indeed, any other group that people might want to put themselves into—about paying people smugglers a…17 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyCracking down on illegal working is crucial to all these reforms, and to ensuring that we can retain public consent not just for our asylum system but for our legal migration…17 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum Policies: Danish ModelWell, I think we can all agree that the right hon. Gentleman’s leadership campaign is going absolutely nowhere. Once again his party reverts to an unworkable solution that is a…17 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. Fixing this broken system is a moral mission for me, because I do not believe that we can look the other way and pretend that it is just…17 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum Policies: Danish ModelThe right hon. Gentleman’s question would have had a bit more force if he had apologised for being part of a Government who fundamentally broke our migration system and presided…17 Nov 2025