Asylum Seekers: Removal to Rwanda Debate

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Department: Home Office

Asylum Seekers: Removal to Rwanda

Alison Thewliss Excerpts
Monday 13th June 2022

(2 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Alison Thewliss Portrait Alison Thewliss (Glasgow Central) (SNP)
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If the Minister finds it so offensive that my colleague calls the Tory Rwanda scheme “state-sponsored trafficking”, what else would he call the act of shipping vulnerable people across the world against their will?

Tom Pursglove Portrait Tom Pursglove
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I certainly would not call it “state-sponsored trafficking”.