Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Aaron Bell Excerpts
Monday 20th March 2023

(1 year, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Suella Braverman Portrait Suella Braverman
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My hon. Friend makes an incredibly powerful point, and I agree with his sentiment. The historic conventions to which we subscribe are fundamentally challenged by modern travel and a global migration crisis in which more than 100 million displaced people are on the move today. It is right that western and democratic nations, which take pride in our duty and track record of offering refuge to vulnerable people, start a conversation to ensure that we strike the right balance.

Aaron Bell Portrait Aaron Bell (Newcastle-under-Lyme) (Con)
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I am a strong supporter of the Illegal Migration Bill, on the grounds that it is the only practical solution to stop the wicked people-smuggling trade across the channel. Does the Home Secretary agree not only that those who compare this Government’s policies to those of 1930s Germany are appallingly ill-informed, but that it represents a grotesque slander against the victims and survivors of the holocaust?

Suella Braverman Portrait Suella Braverman
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Many people have commented on this. All I will say is that people who resort to such analogies have already lost the argument.