The Right Honourable Dame Eleanor Laing getting seriously annoyed at MPs seemingly delaying casting votes to prevent more debate on the #BordersBill. Highlights that this is an important piece of legislation and they aren't behaving as they should in a democracy.
Do find it hypocritical that Patel is now talking about the behaviour and the "tactics" of the opposition when her department has been churning out misinformation on the Bill for months, and she has seemingly directly lied regarding aspects of it.
Oh and this speech really adds to that. Patel knows that the bill will make things worse. She knows that it violates international law. She knows it will do nothing to combat gangs, and indeed benefit them.
By the way, statistically there is far more chance of a child being mis-aged as and adult than the other way round. This bill directly puts children, particularly those who have been trafficked, at more risk of harm.
That's not quite what the "legal system" said @pritipatel. Kind of missed the point, particularly the independent report showing that it was failings in the Home Office, not asylum seekers, causing delays in the courts.
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