Immigration

Judith Cummins Excerpts

Wednesday 21st May 2025 Commons Chamber

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Judith Cummins)]

I inform the House that Mr Speaker has selected amendment (b) in the name of the Prime Minister.

I call the shadow Home Secretary.

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[Dame Angela Eagle]

No. [Interruption.]

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Judith Cummins)]

Order. The Minister will be heard.

[Dame Angela Eagle]

I am talking about 20-week periods, which feature in the Opposition’s motion. I am talking about what happened in a 20-week period, when—just to go back over it—the shadow Home Secretary went from tech Minister to not having a job, to being Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Paymaster General, and then police Minister. The Conservatives brought the same chaos to government as they did to their immigration policy, over which they had control for 14 years.

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[Dr Caroline Johnson]

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The history lesson of who was which Minister in which Government when is obviously all available on the internet, if people want to look. How does it relate to the matter we are discussing today, which is what the current Government are doing to tackle migration?

[Madam Deputy Speaker]

I thank the hon. Lady for her point of order, and I look forward to hearing her views in the debate later.

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[Dame Angela Eagle]

When we came into office, we ended the Rwanda scheme. The scheme was about deporting people, processing their asylum in another country and never letting them back here. [Interruption.] But it did not work—[Interruption.]

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Judith Cummins)]

Order. I want to hear what the Minister has to say, as do my constituents and, I am sure, all Members’ constituents.

[Dame Angela Eagle]

The Conservatives—who conveniently called an early election so that the Rwanda scheme would never start, after spending years saying that even perpetrating the idea of a Rwanda scheme would stop the boats—know as well as I do that over 84,000 people crossed the channel in small boats in the years from the Rwanda scheme being put into law to its being abolished. They can sit there and say that—