Planned Deportation Flight to Jamaica - Statement

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 5:48 pm on 10 February 2020.

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Photo of Lord Lilley Lord Lilley Conservative 5:48, 10 February 2020

My Lords, my noble friend and the Government are right to take a robust line with foreign criminals, but it must be at least doubtful how foreign people are if they have been here for an awfully long time and they probably thought that they were British citizens. Why is there such a contrast between the Government’s robustness on this issue and their failure immediately to deport people who come across the channel from safe countries on the continent who are manifestly foreign and have no legal right to be here? Why do they go through a lengthy process of considering whether they have any right to be here when they manifestly do not?