Member

I have discussed this amendment with the Anglican bishop Matthew Firth. He has spoken out about this topic a number of times after he was brave enough to come forward and say that he had seen extensive cases of abuse of Christian baptism by male asylum seekers. He described people coming to him in his former parish church in Darlington, representing groups of asylum seekers, saying, “These people need to be baptised”. In giving evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee in March 2024, he stated that