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Amendment 74 is my attempt to carry on that campaign by making the most technical and legal of changes to ensure compliance with the refugee convention and to restore the common law position. It seeks to rid us of the false notion that a refugee who merely stops in another country can be punished and penalised. However, it would retain the requirement that a refugee must come directly from a place where their life or freedom was threatened, and the term “come directly” must be interpreted in line with our common law tradition.