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Lords deliver second round of setbacks to Nationality and Borders Bill
A group of people are brought in to Dungeness, Kent, onboard the RNLI Lifeboat following a small boat incident in the Channel
PRITI PATEL’S attack on asylum rights has suffered a second round of setbacks in the House of Lords, with campaigners saying that the defeats show her legislation to be “unworkable.”
Peers rejected Tory plans to divide asylum-seekers into two classes based on their means of arrival in Britain, as well as a proposal to criminalise the act of arriving in the country without permission.
They also voted down a measure in the widely condemned Nationality and Borders Bill that would open the door to offshore processing of asylum-seekers.
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