I feel bound to say that that really is not good enough. We asked whether there was some hidden agenda, which perhaps we felt was something to do with some previous colonial situation, but as the Minister says there is no hidden agenda, I understand that that is not the situation at the moment. Nothing that he has just said in any way justifies having to have a cut-off point. We have not heard a single reason why we have to have a cut-off point now, as opposed to the past and to various situations that have changed in the past, or why we cannot simply remove it.
UK Borders Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Higgins
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 18 July 2007.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee proceeding on UK Borders Bill.
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