Extract from report stage (Lords) (day 1) of the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill - Sep 30
Thursday, 1 October 2020 08:07
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Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB):...This comes on a day when we read in
the Financial Times that the Government seriously considered using
Ascension Island 5,000 miles from the United Kingdom, as a
potential asylum-processing centre—a bizarre, wholly impractical
and ultimately inhumane proposal that demonstrates why Parliament
must not cede its powers or be missing in action when these sorts
of crazy ideas are mooted. Rather, it should be seeking and working
with the Government to find...Request free trial
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