Justin Welby has previously criticised government migration policy, calling the Rwanda deportation scheme 'opposite the nature of God'. He is one of almost a hundred speakers down to speak on the Illegal Migration Bill in the Lords today.
Alf Dubs, who escaped from the Nazis on the Kindertransport - an organised effort to save children from the Holocaust - is one of those on the order paper, alongside former Conservative leader Michael Howard and ex-chancellor Norman Lamont." - one of Rishi Sunak's five pledges made in January this year.
More than 40,000 people made the journey last year despite the passage of the Nationality and Borders Act, and a further 6,000 have already crossed in 2023.Writing in The Times this morning, Suella Braverman, the home secretary, and Alex Chalk, the justice secretary, urged peers not to stand in the way of the"will of the British people" by impeding the legislation.
Another pillar of the plan is the hosting of people arriving in the UK at former military bases and on ships before they are ex-patriated.for refurbishment, after which it will head to Portland on the Dorset coast, where it will host migrants.
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