Sir Edward Leigh MP
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Conservative Member of Parliament for Gainsborough. Constituents: to contact me please email edward.leigh.mp @parliament .uk
Gainsborough, Lincs
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I have nominated Boris Johnson — the man with a mandate from the British people. He never should have been removed in the first place.
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Immigration is quite possibly the most important issue facing this Government or indeed any Government in Europe.
When I was elected in 1983, net legal migration was 17,000. It is now 600,000. There is no mandate for this whatsoever and it needs to stop.
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Suella merely says what millions of strong Conservative voters think.
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An honour to ask the final Prime Minister's Question of
@BorisJohnson
's time in Number 10. He has got Brexit done, levelled up, rolled out the vaccine, and ensured Ukraine will not become a vassal state.
We have so much more to do, but Prime Minister: thank you.
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Ed Miliband has approved the Gate Burton solar project — against local opposition, without local authorities’ input.
The cunulative effect of these plans is 10,000 acres of over-development near G’boro.
Labour is waging a war against our countryside and against food production.
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We need to stop human rights laws from being abused by people who are economic migrants, not genuine refugees.
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We need much stronger action to bring illegal Channel crossings down to zero. This is what voters elected us to do.
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Ballots are arriving via post now. I encourage party members to support
@trussliz
— she’s the leader who will cut taxes and get the economy going.
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I was saying to the Pope today in Italian:
“Prega per noi nel nostro dibattito sull’aborto in Parlamento.”
He replied in English: “I will.”
Powerful support for the unborn this week.
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An 80-year-old pensioner living on a tiny state pension should not be sent to prison because she refuses to pay for the untold millions paid to Gary Lineker with her licence fee.
If this law is an ass, it should be repealed.
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We must meet our manifesto commitment to stop mass migration. It's no good replacing migration from the EU with migration from the rest of the world.
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Welcoming
@BorisJohnson
to the Gainsborough constituency today. He brought the great positive vision that always inspires the troops and we have a copy of the Brexit Act he got through Parliament.
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The Rwanda Bill is the toughest bill we've had to combat illegal immigration. I'm worried it's not tight enough to be put into working practice before the next general election.
The simplest solution is for detention upon arrival and deportation within days.
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Celebrating 100 years of Gainsborough being a Conservative constituency — with just three MPs in that time, a unique record I think.
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Our asylum system is broken and being abused by economic migrants.
@SuellaBraverman
is right to fix it.
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Great to see so many turn out for this weekend’s
@March4LifeUK
— defending the rights of the most vulnerable in our society.
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We have an extraordinary and absurd situation in which people who have travelled through safe, stable, democratic countries that respect human rights are claiming asylum in the United Kingdom.
The pull factors are massive and the system is broken.
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We need to be able to immediately arrest and detain illegal arrivals to the United Kingdom to solve the problem of economic migrants abusing our asylum system.
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Jerusalem is a multi-faith city, but Christians of the Armenian Quarter are facing threats and intimidation.
As good friends of Israel we need to call out the thuggish behaviour of the extremist settler movement and those few officials who sympathise with them.
@SavetheArQ
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🚨 SCAMPTON
Victory: the two-year battle is over. We have won.
Migrants will not be housed at Scampton and the site will be released “as soon as is practicable”.
We want the full regeneration package to go ahead, and the site not just sold for housing.
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The sheer scale of solar farms proposed around Gainsborough and the neighbouring areas is ridiculous.
Last week I personally confronted the Energy & Net Zero Secretary Coutinho, saying we must stop building solar panels on Grade 3b land.
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We need to end the cruel and callous criminal trade in Channel crossings. The lives of innocent children are being put as risk for naked profit.
Detain and deport is the only thing that will work.
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Tomorrow is the 80th anniversary of the Dambusters Squadron being formed.
I've been lobbying
@SuellaBraverman
and today
@RobertJenrick
to emphasise how much we need the deal regenerating RAF Scampton and how the proposal to house migrants there instead could scupper it.
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Given the worldwide grain crisis, it's obvious we need to keep Grade 1, 2, and 3 farmland in good agricultural use.
This weekend I met with residents at Hatton opposing the solar farm application there — I support their campaign.
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As the new Father of the House I had the honour of presiding over the election of the Speaker today.
I thank Sir Lindsay Hoyle for his very kind words as I inherit this role from my illustrious predecessor, Sir Peter Bottomley.
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The amendments I proposed yesterday aimed to tighten up the law to discourage spurious claims.
For example, an illegal migrant could make a tweet for overthrowing the Rwandan president and then claim that even though Rwanda is safe in general, it would be unsafe for him.
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The buffer zone amendment seeks to undermine free speech, criminalise peaceful prayer, and ban those who offer life-saving help and support to vulnerable women. If it passes, I cannot support the Public Order Bill.
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A special message from
@BorisJohnson
to the voters of the Gainsborough constituency — many thanks Boris!
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The Government needs to severely rein in legal migration.
It is unsustainable, is keeping our young people from owning homes and starting families, and it has never had a democratic mandate from the voters.
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Congratulations Terry on your retirement as Father of the Chefs after fifty years in the House of Commons — here with two other Fathers.
With three of us, nearly 150 years of service to the House!
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Christianity is central to our history, our monarchy, our constitution, and our parliamentary democracy.
That's why religious education is vital in order to understand the world around us — a world of many beliefs and of none.
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I am deeply grateful to
@GillianKeegan
announcing today that the admissions cap for faith schools will be scrapped.
This will finally allow us to open new Catholic schools — all part of our plan to deliver better standards for all pupils and more choices for parents.
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There will be more tragedies in the Channel and more and more hotels will fill up unless the Government acts immediately.
Every illegal migrant must be arrested, charged, and detained. Before being released, they must be deported, off-shored, or return to their own country.
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The new memorial museum to Polish bomber squadrons at
@RAFIngham
.
This piece of inspirational history is well worth a visit. 🇵🇱🇬🇧
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With Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary, learning about his country’s effective ways of combating illegal migration.
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A map of the solar farm applications in my constituency.
It would be gross over-development for West Lindsey alone to have more solar farm acreage than any other part of the UK.
Good land must be kept in agricultural production — especially during a world food crisis.
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The Government must take immediate action to fulfil numerous pledges and cut legal migration.
We can start by insisting no one is allowed to take up a job here if the salary is less than the average national wage of £33,000 per year.
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The best way to have food security is to grow as much of your own food as possible. That's why we should extend planning protections for Grade 1, 2, and 3a agricultural land to Grade 3b too.
We must keep good land in agricultural use, not convert it to swathes of solar panels.
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By long-standing tradition, the coronation is a deeply religious and spiritual event; particularly the anointing of our monarch. The Church of England must endeavour to keep it as such.
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In 2022, the number of people we let in to the UK was 2.4 times the number of new dwellings we built.
We were right to take in Ukrainian and Afghan refugees, but we need a massive cut to legal immigration in order to stay afloat.
Our young people deserve a chance.
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What's wrong with this country? We used to have proper scandals, about sex or money.
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Today, after thirty-two years campaigning, I joined
@davidhorne
as
@LNER
did its validation run for a daily direct rail service between Market Rasen and London.
Thank you to all whose efforts have made this possible.
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West Lindsey will challenge in the courts any Home Office action that threatens our regeneration plan.
We are happy to do our bit and host migrants but Scampton is the wrong site at the wrong time. £300 million of investment doesn’t come often to Lincolnshire.
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There is no sense in allowing massive clusters of solar panels such that we will have thousands and thousands of acres of panels on good farmland around towns like Gainsborough.
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Ed Miliband has now passed two huge solar applications in my constituency with no local democracy — Cottam and Gate Burton.
I have repeatedly asked to meet him to make the point that these applications in & around West Lindsey amounting to 10,000 acres must be taken as a whole.
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The RAF is trying to remove the grave of Guy Gibson's dog from Scampton, but are content for the Home Office to house illegal migrants there, threatening our £300-million regeneration plan for the site.
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At the Jenrick rally today in Spalding.
Change. Win. Deliver.
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We in rural Lincolnshire have the finest collection of mediaeval churches in the country.
Parishes are the glory of the Church of England and I support
@SaveTheParish
's efforts to preserve and protect these vital pillars of English life.
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Absolutely delighted.
WLDC now have permission for a full judicial review of the Home Office’s plans for Scampton.
We all know Home Office plans were perverse for reasons I have explained in Parliament time and time again.
.
@WestLindseyDC
's legal challenge to the Home Office’s proposal for RAF Scampton will proceed to a full judicial review.
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If 95% of applications are successful, then speeding up the process will encourage more illegal migrants to come.
Detaining and deporting them abroad is the only solution that will cut the numbers coming.
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Serving personnel should never be put at risk by having an open camp for illegal migrants on any working defence base.
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Students who defend the rights of the unborn must be allowed to voice their views at universities.
@Prolifestudents
have witnessed events cancelled by those who want to shut down debate about the most defenceless and vulnerable people in our society.
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Enjoying a break from canvassing with delicious
@Piperscrisps
from Lincolnshire at the oldest thatched pub in the county, The Kings Head, Tealby.
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Unborn children have all too few legal safeguards in the United Kingdom, but some MPs want to weaken those laws even further.
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Home-grown employers in Britain are paying too low wages and relying on cheap workers from abroad.
We need to bring average earnings up so that British workers are paid a fair and decent wage without being undercut.
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“Whatever our faith,” the late Queen said, “we can all follow a star – indeed we must follow one if the immensity of the future opening before us is not to dazzle our eyes.”
The Queen was our star. God rest her soul.
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These massive proposals for solar panels are unwise, unwelcome, and they undermine our countryside.
I met with the Prime Minister last week to encourage him to extend the existing protections for farmland graded 1, 2, and 3a to include grade 3b as well.
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We have many people in this country who could do the work we need if we paid them and trained them to do it.
Forever undercutting British workers by granting visas for jobs offered at below-average earnings hurts us in the long run.
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I'm grateful for Minister
@_RobbieMoore
visiting my constituency this weekend.
Farmers continually tell me the
@EnvAgency
has prioritised wildlife habitat over getting dykes and watercourses cleared. The result is flooding.
This needs to change.
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Countries with social insurance schemes like France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and other European neighbours have better health outcomes than our one-size-fits-all system.
Shouldn't we have an open mind about reforming our NHS in this direction?
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I congratulate
@WestLindseyDC
on their Stop Notice.
I have repeatedly warned ministers about the danger to listed buildings at Scampton and have received no reassurance.
Sheer incompetence from the Home Office. There is now no case for their proposals.
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Nobody is going to spend thousands of pounds to a people smuggler just to be detained and sent back to Rwanda.
My fear is they will not be deterred if they are going to be put up in a cosy, warm, former airman’s bedroom in RAF Scampton.
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There is no sense in building solar panels on good arable land.
Ministers have continually reassured me that the guidance against this is clear.
We must keep up the fight to make sure planning authorities don't slip up.
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This week a petition signed by more than 100,000 people was delivered to Downing Street.
They are supporting Caroline Ansell MP’s bid to reduce the time limit on abortion. I’ve added my name to her amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill.
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Our All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Holy See took part in a Memorial Mass for our murdered colleague and friend, Sir David Amess.
Offered by Archbishop Gallagher today in the chapel of St Columba near the tomb of the Apostle Peter in the Vatican.
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We have to get a grip on illegal economic migration.
Currently we are incentivising people, some of them very vulnerable, to travel through safe countries to make risky journeys across the Channel.
This must stop. There is no moral case for letting it continue.
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Solar panels belong on the rooftops of factories and homes. They don't belong on good farmland.
I've been pressuring ministers to honour the existing protection for Grade 1, 2, and 3a agricultural land and to extend it to Grade 3b.
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As it stands, the Public Order Bill makes Orwellian thought crime a reality.
Silent prayer should not be a police matter.
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We're not building enough houses for the people already here, let alone those who we're letting in.
This will have an effect on the lives and mental health of the next generation. We owe it to them to fix this now rather than wait even longer.
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“Order, order!”
A joy and a privilege to occupy the chair of the House on behalf of Mister Speaker.
I am temporarily serving as one of his deputies until new ones are elected next week.
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If the daily return service from Cleethorpes to London doesn't stop at Market Rasen I will lay on the tracks and force it to.
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The left thinks it is perfectly within their rights to keep ambulances from reaching hospital, keep workers from their jobs, and disrupt ordinary people's lives.
But a woman saying a silent prayer outside an abortion clinic is considered an outrage that needs to be banned.
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Thank you for your faithful service to the nation and to the people of Lincolnshire.
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This weekend I met with local campaigners.
Proposal for 13,000 acres to be covered with solar farms within a six-mile radius around Gainsborough.
And generating only 15 per cent the output of a power station. Ridiculous.
We will carry on fighting against it.
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Thank you
@Nigel_Farage
for bringing your
@GBNews
show to Lincolnshire to highlight the threat to our excellent RAF Scampton deal.
We in West Lindsey are willing to do our bit for the country during this crisis, but housing migrants at Scampton simply doesn't make sense.
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With the Chair of Scampton Holdings Ltd at the end of a meeting of the
@WestLindseyDC
Planning Committee tonight.
We spoke and they unanimously opposed the moving of the grave of Guy Gibson’s dog.
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I am insisting that
@ukhomeoffice
hold an in-person meeting open to all local residents regarding Scampton.
They have been left in the dark and it is only right they get to discuss their future face to face.
I have written to
@RobertJenrick
asking for a guarantee of this.
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Post Office Ltd is a cumbersome corporate bureaucracy that pays its executives six-figure salaries while subpostmasters do most of the work.
We should remove this extractive level and pass control of the network to those who own, operate, and look after our local post offices.
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It seems the MOD have told their own serving personnel living at Scampton that they can be moved out at taxpayers' expense if illegal migrants are housed there.
No such offer has been made to the civilian residents at Scampton.
Scrap this plan and save our regeneration deal!
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A great launch to our campaign last night.
Working hard for all the people of the Gainsborough constituency!
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Gainsborough is threatened by 10,000 acres of solar panels.
There is a presumption against solar panels being built on Grade 1, 2, and 3a agricultural land — we need that expanded to include 3b.
It is senseless taking good farmland out of agricultural use amidst a food crisis.
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I am disappointed at the result of the Scampton court case, but I understand
@WestLindseyDC
intends to appeal and has solid grounds for doing so.
They have my full support and the stop notices remain in place.
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I welcome West Lindsey's further Stop Notice at Scampton. We warned the Home Office their plans were unrealistic and failed to take into account the intricacies of Scampton.
I am writing to
@RobertJenrick
seeking assurance
@ukHomeOffice
will obey the law.
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We want traditional, caring family doctors you can see face to face. We must not allow GP surgeries to be fully commercialised.
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We need to stop illegal Channel crossings. Why not send them to the UK Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus?
We must put an end to this criminal trade and stop the traffickers and people smugglers.
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I have just seen the Prime Minister. He gave me all the time I needed and listened very carefully.
I made forcibly all the arguments on RAF Scampton including heritage and regeneration.
I urged him to delay until a full impact assessment has been completed. He could not commit.
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This evening I had a very useful planning meeting with Scampton Parish Council, Lincolnshire County Councillor, West Lindsey District Councillor, and officials, to discuss our legal moves to stop the perverse decision by the Home Office to house illegal migrants at RAF Scampton.
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Every time an economic migrant arrives in the UK illegally an army of lawyers tries to stop every deportation.
The
@CoE
must know that this threatens our country's future participation in the ECHR.
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Detaining and deporting illegal migrants is the only real deterrent.
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A sad goodbye to Boris from his loyalists! Good to be there, shake his hand, and say thank you for his service.
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We are here at Scampton peacefully protesting against the Home Office’s proposal to house illegal migrants at the former RAF base.
Their plan provides no value for money and is holding up our ��300-million regeneration deal. Ministers should drop it now.
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With the new Home Secretary today.
I put the case for allowing our levelling-up regeneration plan for Scampton to go ahead and not let it be prevented by putting illegal migrants there.
He promised to take away my arguments and investigate them.
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Too many in the Treasury think the best way to grow the economy is to fill the country with more and more people.
We need to make sure new arrivals don't undercut UK workers by taking jobs for lower-than-average salaries.
Pay proper wages and we can get people off benefits.
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Every year we produce a Migration Bill which is then tied up by human rights lawyers.
The Refugee Convention and EHRC were made for a different world. A temporary derogation would help us solve the problem and significantly reduce illegal migration.
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Why does the Home Office persist in seeking to use RAF Scampton to house illegal migrants when its own civil servants recommended stopping work on the Scampton proposal?
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Government must ensure we throw the book at extremist protestors who block ambulances and prevent law-abiding citizens going about their daily business.
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The Home Office's value-for-money case for housing illegal migrants at RAF Scampton is now baseless. The savings will be derisory, if they exist at all.
I am writing to the Comptroller & Auditor General asking him to intervene in this waste of taxpayers' money.
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BT are shutting red telephone boxes up and down the country.
Why not fit them out with defibrillators so that rural villages across Britain are better equipped to deal with cardiac arrest?
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Agricultural land graded 3b is just as good for growing arable crops as 3a.
The presumption against building solar panels on land graded 1, 2, and 3a should be extended to 3b.
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