Immigration Bill — Committee (3rd Day) (Continued)

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 7:00 pm on 1 February 2016.

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Photo of Baroness Lister of Burtersett Baroness Lister of Burtersett Labour 7:00, 1 February 2016

Very briefly, I support Amendment 215A because I absolutely agree that this is not a trivial matter. I am not an expert on these issues but a social scientist who knows the importance of language. Some years ago, it was quite common among the media and politicians to talk about bogus asylum seekers. That did immense harm, so I absolutely agree that language which has connotations of criminality when applied to asylum seekers is totally inappropriate and could be very harmful.