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Caroline Lucas, the Green party MP, describes the bill as a “cynical and sinister attack on the highest court in the UK”.
The bill won’t work, she says. And it won’t serve as a deterrent to people who are already risking their lives.
It’s “a performative piece of cruelty from a dying administraton”, she says.
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Danny Kruger, co-chair of the New Conservatives, is speaking now, and he starts by saying he welcomes what the bill is trying to achieve.
But he expresses concern about individual challenges to deportation being allowed.
He says he is not calling at this point for the UK to leave the European convention on human rights.
But, if the European court of human rights were to continue to block deportations, at that point the UK could being a “conversation” that might lead to the departure.
Referring to the supreme court judgment, he says it was wrong for the court to insert itself into foreign policy and make “rather patronsing” judgments about the Rwandan system.
He says he cannot support the bill tonight. And he had been hoping the government would pull it.
Danny Kruger Photograph: Parliament TV18m ago10.42 EST
David Jones, another Conservative who is a member of the European Research Group’s legal “star chamber” that published a critical assessment of the bill yesterday, is speaking now.
He says it is debatable whether the bill is sufficiently watertight.
Referring to the ERG report, he says amendments to the bill are…
2023-12-12 10:47:02
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