UK Parliament / Open data

Illegal Migration Bill

I will not give way at the moment.

The vast majority of people arriving on small boats come from an obvious place of safety—France—with a fully functioning asylum system, so they are choosing to make that additional crossing. They are essentially asylum shoppers, even if they originally come from a place of danger, and they are doing that because they believe the United Kingdom is a better place to make their claim and to build a future. Their ability to work is obviously part of that calculation, as our north European counterparts frequently say.

About this proceeding contribution

Reference

731 cc1484-329 

Session

2022-23

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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