Member

If noble Lords cast their minds back three years to the prior borders Bill, they will recall that the roots of criminalising the act of arriving to seek asylum began there. I would remind my noble friends in government that, in opposition, we rejected that Bill in its entirety at Second Reading. My noble friend Lord Coaker, now a Minister, called it “wrong and unethical”—that was on 27 April 2022, at col. 306 of Hansard.