UK Borders Bill
1:30 pm
Stewart Jackson (Peterborough, Conservative)
Let me take you to the Dog and Duck in Peterborough. We are propped up at the bar, and my constituents, who are the salt of the earth from north Cambridgeshire, say: “This foreign prisoner debacle is all about the Human Rights Act, isn’t it? It’s abused, because if you are sent to prison, period, it is not for not paying your TV licence, it is because you have been very naughty. These lawyers are misusing the system and abusing the Human Rights Act in a way that was not intended. It is unfair.” What would be your response to that sort of comment?