'To stop the boats, we must go further.' Home Secretary Suella Braverman says under new govt legislation anyone arriving in the UK illegally would be 'swiftly removed', adding that 'this is what the public wants'. Live: 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602 and YT
'The Home Secretary has no grip on the system' - Labour's Yvette Cooper
But Ms Cooper says that although Rishi Sunak insists his plan to stop the boats is"working", "the asylum backlog he promised to clear is at a record high, decisions are down...caseworkers have dropped. Referring back to the £6bn figure the government has placed on the Illegal Migration Bill, he says"assumptions" will have been made in the Home Office, and Lord Simon Murray will have these"facts and figures" available to him but has not shared them with the House. 16:23:01Over in the Commons, Home Secretary Suella Braverman is now giving a statement on migration.
Lords have been raising questions and concerns about why they have not seen the impact assessment ahead of the debate and how the government has made decisions about the bill without it. Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle says he also hasn't had enough time to look through the statement, so adjourns the Commons for 10 minutes - not a regular occurrence on the floor of the House. Conservative MP Bob Stewart has been charged with public order offences relating to a"racially aggravated" incident in December last year.
Mr Hancock committed the"minor breach" by writing an unsolicited letter to Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Daniel Greenberg in defence of senior Tory Steve Brine, who was under investigation for an alleged breach of lobbying rules.The MP, who is currently sitting as an independent after being stripped of the Conservative whip, told the Commons he was grateful to be able to make his statement"at the earliest possible opportunity".
He added that, despite this, the committee recommended he apologise and underline that respect for the code and the processes of investigating potential breaches of the code is"an important necessary part" of the policy.In the House of Lords, a debate around the Illegal Migration Bill is taking place following Rishi Sunak's announcement in Kent earlier today.
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