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Proposals to allow government to process asylum-seekers overseas reinstated into Nationality & Borders Bill
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.
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