Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda

Debate between Priti Patel and Hywel Williams

Wednesday 15th June 2022 Commons Chamber

[Priti Patel]

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. He knows how much I enjoy visiting his constituency—that part of Wales is beautiful, it really is. I know how strongly his constituents feel about the issue, and rightly so, because they want to see change. That is what this Government are committed to, and clearly the Opposition are not.

[Hywel Williams (Arfon) (PC)]

Government Ministers, from the Prime Minister down, consistently signal their hostility to the European convention on human rights—this episode is a case in point—but the convention is fundamental to Welsh law, for example in the Rights of Children and Young Persons (Wales) Measure 2011. Does the Secretary of State accept that a move away from the convention would undermine Welsh lawmaking, which the overwhelming majority of Welsh people support?

[Priti Patel]

I refer the hon. Gentleman to comments that I have already made about the European Court’s ruling.