![]() ![]() ![]() He warned the Bill would "disarm our diplomacy" by making it difficult to "remonstrate with rule breakers", and said: "In almost 20 years here, I don’t think I can recall a more disreputable Bill than this one. "How utterly ashamed I believe Churchill would be today at this Bill," he added.Ĭrossbencher and former ambassador Lord Kerr of Kinlochard said: "We’re being asked to agree to a blatant repudiation of our commitments under the. He said it would be "more suited to a party of extremists than the party that saw one of its greatest leaders, Winston Churchill, amongst the architects of the Council of Europe, the European Court of Human Rights, and the European Convention on Human Rights." The House of Lords has spent the afternoon discussing the government's controversial Illegal Migration Bill, and many peers lined up to condemn it.įormer EastEnders actor and MEP Lord Cashman described the Bill as a "thoroughly reprehensible piece of legislation". ![]()
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