Backbench Business - Windrush: 70TH Anniversarybackbench Business

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 4:44 pm on 14 June 2018.

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Photo of John Hayes John Hayes Conservative, South Holland and The Deepings 4:44, 14 June 2018

Earlier I mentioned the British Caribbean Association, with which a number of Members will be familiar. The association was formed following those riots in Notting Hill in the year of my birth, and it was formed precisely to foster good relations between the indigenous people and those incoming people—people with very much the values Ms Abbott tellingly identified in her speech. The welcome those people deserved but did not get does not mean the Government should now take an approach of unrestricted immigration, and it certainly does not mean conflating the Windrush issue with illegal migration. The right hon. Lady is absolutely right that that conflation is very unhelpful, and very unhealthy, too.