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Coffee House Shots

Can Welby stop the Illegal Migration Bill?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

James Heale speaks to Katy Balls and Stephen Bush about the Lord's debate on the Illegal Migration Bill. Now in its third reading, will the government face substantive amendments to the legislation?

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0:00.0

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0:19.5

Hello and welcome to Coffee How Shots.

0:21.6

I'm James Hill, and I'm joined today by Katie Moore's

0:24.6

and Steve Bush at the Financial Times.

0:26.8

Now today the big thing in Parliament is the Legal Migration Bill,

0:29.7

the House of Laws, been debating it for three hours this morning,

0:32.4

it's now adjourned and debating it the rest of the afternoon.

0:35.1

And I suppose the highlight would probably be

0:36.9

Justin Welby's speech attacking the bill,

0:38.8

but saying that he wouldn't vote for the paddock amendment

0:41.6

which would throw the whole bill out wholesale

0:43.8

instead he's going to be putting down amendments at committee stage.

0:47.0

This bill has no sense at all of the long term and of the global

0:53.9

nature of the challenge that the world faces.

0:57.6

It ignores the reality that migration must be engaged with

1:01.6

at source as well as in the channel,

1:04.7

as if we as a country were unrelated to the rest of the world.

1:09.8

Now Katie, really what were the government expecting about this bill

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