Tory-dominated committee says bill risks ‘turning back the clock’ on immigration policy
The Home Office has said it would only send unaccompanied child migrants to a third country in “very limited circumstances”. Responding to today’s report from the women and equalities committee (see 9.13am), a Home Office spokesperson said:
Through the illegal migration bill, we will stop the boats by detaining those who come to the UK illegally and swiftly returning them to a safe third country or their home country.
It is only right that we protect the most vulnerable by not creating incentives for criminal gangs to target specific groups.
