Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

Amendment 12, page 3, line 22, af...

I know that the Minister for Countering Illegal Migration, my hon. and learned Friend the Member ...

I am happy to support my right hon. Friend tonight on this amendment, as I did last night. I am o...

I will come on to the exact points that my right hon. Friend is making; they are fair and importa...

At least the right hon. Gentleman has the strength to be vocal about what he actually believes, w...

It is a pity, but I cannot say I am surprised, that the hon. Gentleman sinks to those depths and ...

Is this British exceptionalism? Is the right hon. Gentleman making the case that the ECHR should ...

It seems as if we are having a dialogue of the deaf, because that is not what I said at all. I sa...

My right hon. Friend is, of course, right that it contradicts the long-established custom and pra...

I entirely agree with my right hon. Friend.

As somebody who has served on the Council of Europe and was proud to do so because of the United ...

That is not the point I am making. Once again, the hon. Lady is not listening. The point I am mak...

I want to address the point of law in respect of the Strasbourg Court. The difficulty with the ri...

No. There may be a good-faith disagreement between the hon. and learned Lady and me, but I do not...

I call the shadow Minister.

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship again, Dame Rosie.

Here we go again: it is d...

We have heard that before, but let us address the narrow legal point. Does the hon. Gentleman thi...

What we are seeing is complete shambolic incompetence in the asylum system, and if cases are not ...

On the point the shadow Minister made about political choices, he is valiantly opposing the Bill ...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his comments, but we have made it absolutely clear that the Bill i...

My hon. Friend is right about the purpose of the Bill, which is one of the most flagrant attempts...

I thank my hon. Friend for his powerful intervention. It is difficult to determine the true purpo...

The shadow Minister knows that our view on the Government Benches is that the problem cannot be c...

It is clear that in order to stop the Tory small boats chaos, we have to smash the criminal smugg...

The shadow Minister makes a good point about co-operation. He is right that the only way to tackl...

As I said yesterday, there are pragmatic, sensible things the Government have been doing that we ...

The mantra has been clear for many months from the Opposition Benches, including from the shadow ...

On safe and legal routes, as a priority I would look at things like the Afghan schemes, which are...

To draw the shadow Minister back to the amendments and the interim measures of the Strasbourg cou...

When we enter Government, as I hope we will, everything we do will be based on a test: is it affo...

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If the hon. Gentleman does not mind, I will make a little more progress and then come back to him...

Order. It is the convention that any Member wishing to intervene should have been in the Chamber ...

Thank you, Dame Rosie. It is against the backdrop of chaos, confusion and “party before country” ...

Those who are worried about social media may also find it useful to use their phones in the Chamb...

My hon. Friend makes a very good point. As we have also seen in the letter that Nathalie Loiseau ...

It may be helpful if I clarify a few things. First, if colleagues wish to intervene, it is import...

Thank you, Dame Rosie. In fact I have two amendments—amendments 54 and 55—on which I wish to focu...

I work closely with my right hon. and learned Friend in a number of ways, as he knows, and I am w...

My right hon. Friend knows that the Attorney General is consulted on a variety of different legal...

I am pleased to hear what the right hon. and learned Gentleman has to say on the question of inte...

I suspect that what the hon. Lady is referring to is the statement of incompatibility with the co...

Does my right hon. and learned Friend, who has great experience as a former Attorney General, agr...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention. I know, Dame Rosie, you would not want me t...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. and learned Member for Kenilworth and Southam (Sir Jere...

Without prejudice to the content of what the hon. and learned Lady is saying otherwise, may I sim...

I certainly will not be supporting the other notwithstanding clauses in the Bill, but I felt that...

The hon. and learned Lady is making a good point about the checks and balances that prevent arbit...

The Bill seeks to carve out a group of people coming to our country, or who are in our country, f...

I call the Chair of the Select Committee on Justice.

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh South West (Joanna Cherry) a...

I have great respect for the argument that my hon. Friend is making, and I defer to his experienc...

I think my hon. Friend needs to bear in mind that the application that was made to Strasbourg was...

In fact, further than that, there are already proposed reforms to the interim procedure, which wi...

My right hon. and learned Friend is entirely correct, and he and I would probably have very happi...

I am loth to interrupt my hon. Friend as he is describing not so much the separation of powers as...

I would make two points about that. In fact, I supported the noble Lord Cameron in that regard be...

Would my hon. Friend reflect on this fact about prisoner voting? I discussed the matter with the ...

That is why, as it happens, I will not vote against this Bill, because although I have some misgi...

I do not want to prolong the discussion about prisoner voting, but like my hon. Friend the Member...

I think that is right. As I recall, the UK Government put a motion before this House, which the H...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Sir Robert Neill), Chair ...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way and giving me a chance to put him right. I off...

If the Minister is prepared to say that the only refugees who can come to the United Kingdom from...

I apologise if I did not fully understand the hon. Gentleman’s point in his question to me when I...

I am glad to accept that intervention, and the shadow Minister has made his point and I have made...

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I will not take an intervention at this stage, because there are a few elements that I want to ge...

I appreciate the case the hon. Gentleman is making. My concern is that the Angesom judgment—I loo...

The hon. Lady is entirely right in the quote that she shares. It is fair to say that the Governme...

I spoke yesterday to the amendments that stand in my name and are potentially subject to Division...

I understand the argument that my right hon. and learned Friend is making, and I will not be dogm...

My right hon. and learned Friend is absolutely right. I think I have said outside the Chamber tha...

First, does my right hon. and learned Friend understand that there are those who argue that the r...

I have sources that I was looking at to research this speech. I will send my hon. Friend the link...

I am grateful to the right hon. and learned Member for his contribution. He would accept that the...

The hon. Gentleman makes a powerful point. I hope that is taken up in the other place as well. As...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. and learned Member for South Swindon (Sir Robert Buckla...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

Oh, go on, then.

The hon. Lady is constantly and sarcastically evoking Winston Churchill. Obviously he did sign up...

I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman was not here earlier to be part of the conversation. I am sure...

I rise to speak in support of amendment 11, tabled by my right hon. Friend the Member for Newark ...

I am not sure why we have to be frightened of foreign courts. What exactly is wrong with a foreig...

I will tell the hon. Gentleman where we have a problem with a foreign court. In that scenario, wh...

Surely on that basis almost any deportation could be blocked, for few countries in the world can ...

I am afraid that my right hon. Friend is absolutely right to highlight that point. Article 3, and...

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I will not give way.

Is it a forum that does not share our values, that has made decisions ...

I know the right hon. and learned Lady feels this passionately, but will she clarify her concern ...

NATO is not a court. I am slightly embarrassed that I have to make that clear to the hon. Lady, a...

Order. I now have to announce the results of today’s deferred Divisions.

On the draft Immig...

What a privilege it is to follow the former Home Secretary. The debate has really lit up. There w...

I will now announce the results of the Ballot held today for the election of the Chair of the Def...

I will be slightly unfashionable and talk to the amendment, rather than regurgitating some of the...

I have heard the hon. Gentleman make that point before about people who come and cannot be sent b...

I know it happens already. That is what I have been saying, and the hon. Lady at least credits me...

It is a pleasure to serve under your guidance this afternoon, Sir Roger, and to take part in a de...

I mentioned this question of global leadership in my speech yesterday for a very good reason. It ...

Of course it is a given that the law changes, and laws change via a variety of different means, i...

On the point about declaring a country safe, France, Germany and other EU countries have decided ...

I think on balance we would say that Albania probably is safe, and the bulk of returns we have ha...

The hon. Gentleman has just made a discretionary judgment on the safeness of Albania, having said...

I have never been an apologist for other European countries: they make their own decisions, but t...

Order. Before I call Sir John Hayes, may I remind the House that this is not Second Reading debat...

The debate on the Government side of the Chamber, as my hon. Friend the Member for East Worthing ...

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I do not know whether the hon. Lady is the first or the second, but I happily give way to her.