EU Bilateral Agreements for Asylum Seekers - Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 3:02 pm on 6 September 2021.

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Photo of Lord Liddle Lord Liddle Labour 3:02, 6 September 2021

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for her Answer, but is not the answer that very little progress has actually been made? It would be nice if she acknowledged the fact that it is because of Brexit that we have lost the right to return asylum seekers who could have claimed asylum in other EU countries. More to the point, without these agreements, does it not make the Government’s plan to legislate to make all unauthorised arrivals on UK shores illegal not only unjust and possibly in breach of our international legal obligations but completely unsustainable?