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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 28 October 2025

Debate

Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Contribution

That is a key point. We want to know not only what has happened in the past year but what lessons have been learned and how to improve activities in the future. We cannot wave a magic wand and get back the days when, for 10 years, we had a British director of Europol—those were the good days—but we can at least do better than make the best of a bad job and try to make this a priority. By imposing a requirement on the Government to report, I hope that would provide an incentive to pursue a more structured and formalised relationship with Europe in order to catch more organised criminals.

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