Part of Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill - Committee (5th Day) – in the House of Lords at 6:15 pm on 8 September 2025.
Baroness Hamwee
Liberal Democrat
6:15,
8 September 2025
My Lords, the noble Lord has left out of his critique the requirement that the happy couple, as he described them, must both be at least 23 years old. When minimum income rules increased the amount of income that had to be shown in 2012, I heard a call-in debate about this on the radio. British citizens were affected; as he has said, it is not just about the foreigner. One person who called in said of the person who had been speaking, “Well, why can’t you just go and work in her country?” He said, very calmly, that it is not easy to find a job in mortgage broking in Nigeria.
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