Member

Let us talk about the most pressing failure of the Bill: the complete lack of a clear, humane strategy for safe and legal routes. The truth is that if we do not give people fleeing war, persecution or trafficking a safe way out, they will find a dangerous one. We have seen the consequences: families risking everything, children arriving on our shores and an asylum system buckling under the weight of its own inhumanity. Yet the Bill, in its current state, offers no plan and no route for how the UK will open legal doors, instead of forcing people to scale fences. That is why I support new clause 3, which would require the Government to publish a long overdue strategy on how it will establish safe routes into the UK. We need safe routes not because it is morally right, but because it works.