Immigration: Government Legal Advice

Part of Solicitor General – in the House of Commons at on 19 June 2025.

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Photo of Lucy Rigby Lucy Rigby The Solicitor-General

If you come to this country, you play by our rules. That is why since we came into office, we have been taking action to ensure that foreign offenders can be deported at the earliest opportunity. In the period since we have been in office, we have deported nearly 30,000 foreign criminals and failed asylum seekers. That is the highest rate of returns for more than half a decade. It is the right thing to do, it will save prison capacity, and it will save taxpayers’ money.