Deportation and Removals

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:31 pm on 3 May 2006.

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Photo of Gerald Kaufman Gerald Kaufman Labour, Manchester, Gorton 12:31, 3 May 2006

My right hon. Friend referred in his statement to the removal of failed asylum seekers. Mr. Clegg referred in his question to the fact that there was already legislation on the statute book to deal with such cases. Why did my right hon. Friend, in responding to the hon. Gentleman, fail to refer to the case of the failed asylum seeker in Manchester who stood in the council elections as a Liberal Democrat candidate and was elected? He returned to the country from which he claimed he had been seeking asylum to attend a wedding, and remains in this country now only because he benefited from an amnesty granted by my right hon. Friend's predecessor.