Asylum: British Overseas Territories and Ferries

Baroness Hamwee Excerpts

Monday 5th October 2020 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Williams of Trafford (Con)]

The noble Baroness will appreciate that my right honourable friend the Home Secretary’s words do not accord with many of the things that were leaked. She is absolutely committed, as the noble Baroness will have heard, to accepting all the recommendations in the Wendy Williams lessons learned report. We are working through those now and we want a humane, fair but firm immigration system.

[Baroness Hamwee (LD)]

My Lords, are the reports intended as a message to people who seek sanctuary in the UK or as a dog whistle to the red wall?

[Baroness Williams of Trafford (Con)]

Again, I will not comment on leaks.