Border Checks Summer 2011 Debate

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Department: Home Office

Border Checks Summer 2011

Lord Sharma Excerpts
Wednesday 9th November 2011

(13 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Yvette Cooper Portrait Yvette Cooper
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The Home Secretary has not intervened, so let me give way to the hon. Gentleman.

Lord Sharma Portrait Alok Sharma
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Listening to the tone of the right hon. Lady’s opening comments, one would almost think that her party had left immigration in absolutely perfect order. Let me remind her that it left a system which her own Home Secretary at the time said was “not fit for purpose”, with a backlog of 450,000 asylum cases, and that Lord Glasman, her own colleague, said:

“Labour lied…about…immigration and the extent of illegal”—[Interruption.]

Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Deputy Speaker
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Order. The House will come to order on both sides, and if we are going to have interventions they must be much shorter and we must not make speeches. That will come later.