Jeremy Hunt said that keeping the pension triple lock would be in the Conservative party’s manifesto
A minister has claimed that “credulous clerics and lefty lawyers” are helping people abuse the asylum system.
Andrew Griffith, the science minister, made the comment this morning in the light of revelations about how Abdul Ezedi, the man accused of being responsible for the Clapham chemical attack, came to be granted asylum.
We can’t run an asylum system based on credulous clerics and lefty lawyers. That is why we are fundamentally reforming it.
People like the case you mentioned [Ezedi] … should not be here, because we want to get to a position, it is very clear, if you come here illegally from a safe country, France is a safe country, it is a fellow member of the G7, it is a member of the European Union, it has signed all of the same treaties to protect refugees that the UK has, so if you come here illegally, you will not be able to say.
