Future Immigration

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 1:18 pm on 19 December 2018.

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Photo of David Lammy David Lammy Labour, Tottenham 1:18, 19 December 2018

The Home Secretary was right to pay tribute to his parents. His father, a bus driver, and my mother, who worked at Camden Town tube station, belong to a generation that took so little and gave so much. They were like today’s careworkers, security guards and fruit pickers. He knows that they did not earn anything like £30,000 in the prices of the ’70s and ’80s. How will he look his children in the eyes and say he slammed behind him the door of opportunity that enabled him and me to sit in our seats today?