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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 9 June 2025

Debate

Official Controls (Plant Health) and Phytosanitary Conditions (Amendment) Regulations 2025

Contribution

Defra has allocated £190 million for the construction of border control posts, which are supposed to become operational next month. That is concreting in the division of our country into two. Noble Lords might try to imagine what £190 million would do to our health service, to our policing service and to our building of new homes, and how many nurses that would create, and how many doctors. But no, it is going into building this massive apparatus to create the sea border. The day that Northern Ireland ceases to be a third country—

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