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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak onboard Border Agency cutter HMC Seeker during a visit to Dover, ahead of a press conference to update the nation on the progress made in the six months since he introduced the Illegal Migration Bill under his plans to "stop the boats". Picture date: Monday June 5, 2023.
PEERS have inflicted a total of 20 defeats on the government’s Illegal Migration Bill, which aims to tackle the small boats crisis.
On Wednesday evening, the House of Lords imposed a series of further changes to the Tory plans to stop asylum-seekers using small boats to cross the English Channel, including imposing a legal duty on ministers to create safe and legal routes by which refugees can reach Britain.
Other changes included reinstating the right of appeal against age assessments for migrants claiming to be children and bolstering measures to counter people-smugglers.
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum