Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda Debate

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Department: Home Office

Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda

Paul Bristow Excerpts
Wednesday 15th June 2022

(2 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Priti Patel Portrait Priti Patel
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I refer the hon. Gentleman to comments that I have already made about the European Court’s ruling.

Paul Bristow Portrait Paul Bristow (Peterborough) (Con)
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Is this debate not extremely simple? On this side of the House, we believe in saving lives, stopping evil people smugglers and doing something about thousands of undocumented people landing on our shores week in, week out. On that side of the House, they back the ECHR ruling, they do not want to crack down on people smugglers, they support open borders and they have absolutely no plan to deal with this problem.

Priti Patel Portrait Priti Patel
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I completely agree with my hon. Friend and the conviction with which he has just spoken.