New Clause 1 - Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme

Part of Nationality and Borders Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 12:00 pm on 4 November 2021.

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Photo of Jonathan Gullis Jonathan Gullis Conservative, Stoke-on-Trent North 12:00, 4 November 2021

It sounded as though the hon. Member for Sheffield Central was asking for unfettered, uncontrolled, open-border access to this country. We have already had 20,000 illegal economic migrants crossing the English channel. I was down in Dover yesterday with Baroness Hoey, the former Labour Member of Parliament, and saw with utter shock the situation regarding the illegal attempts at crossing. Does the Minister agree that the hon. Gentleman’s words show that the Labour party is out of touch with what people want?