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An Interforce Security officer carries a young child as a group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, from a Border Force vessel following a small boat incident in the Channel
PROPOSALS that could allow the government to deal with asylum-seekers in another country have been reinstated into the Nationality & Borders Bill despite a small Tory rebellion.
MPs rejected an amendment by peers to remove the measure from the Bill, voting 302 to 232 in a Commons debate today afternoon.
It was one of a series of proposals put back into the widely condemned legislation, undoing efforts by the Lords to remove the most damaging elements of the Bill.
Evidence to peers from medical leaders, patient safety officials and the children’s commissioner has intensified fears that the Bill’s safeguards are inadequate, writes ADAM JAMES POLLOCK
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
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