Foreign National Offenders (Exclusion from the UK) Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 10:57 am on 11 March 2016.

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Photo of Julian Knight Julian Knight Conservative, Solihull 10:57, 11 March 2016

The tentacles of the Human Rights Act spread far and wide and in ways that are perhaps not obvious at first to the outside observer. Does my hon. Friend agree that it is unacceptable for the Advocates General of the European Court of Justice to argue that the UK cannot expel a non-EU national with a criminal record who happens to be the parent of a child who is an EU citizen?