Member

If you really believe that lawyers are always a problem and always in the way, and that we should remove people with no due process at all, that is all very well, but I do not understand that to be the position of either the Front Bench opposite and certainly not of the Government. Why do I say that? I say it not least because my noble friend the Minister restated the Government’s commitment to international human rights and the rule of law just a few moments ago in the previous group. Given all of that, I really find it difficult to see what reasonable objections there are to the arguments made by my noble friend Lord Bach and the noble Lord, Lord Carlile of Berriew, in relation to the importance of basic access to advice and representation for this group of very vulnerable—incarcerated—people who, in addition to their incarceration, may be facing imminent removal from the country.