Channel Crossings in Small Boats

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 3:35 pm on 22 November 2021.

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Photo of Richard Holden Richard Holden Conservative, North West Durham 3:35, 22 November 2021

In 2019 my constituents rejected Labour’s open door immigration policy. Since then we have been getting on with delivering our new Australian-style points- based immigration system in the teeth of opposition from the Labour party. Will the Home Secretary listen to my constituents in Consett, Crook and across North West Durham, rather than to the Labour party, and agree that we must now adopt an Australian approach to stopping the small boats in the channel? Offshore processing, turning them back—whatever it takes to secure our borders and stop the awful human traffickers.