Orders of the Day — Immigration Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 5:12 pm on 16 November 1987.

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Photo of Jeremy Corbyn Jeremy Corbyn , Islington North 5:12, 16 November 1987

I was trying to suggest that perhaps the hon. Gentleman should consider the unwholesome, not to say grossly unfair, way in which Zola Budd was rushed into this country because she is white, from South. Africa and can run, whereas 12,000 families are forced to remain in Bangladesh because of a deliberate bureaucratic decision taken by the Home Secretary.