My right hon. Friend is making a good speech. The reality is that amendment 95 poses a threat. Straightaway, its assumption is that someone goes, rather than that they have to prove anything; they go first and then somebody has to prove that they have to be here. What are they going to do when they look at that? They are going to say, “We’re off, so why would we give evidence?”
Illegal Migration Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Iain Duncan Smith
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 26 April 2023.
It occurred during Speaker's statement
and
Debate on bills on Illegal Migration Bill.
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