Article 6A720 MPs reject amendments to illegal migration bill – as it happened

MPs reject amendments to illegal migration bill – as it happened

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Nadeem Badshah (now) and Andrew Sparrow (earlier)
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Votes come as Labour says people will continue to risk lives to cross Channel under new bill

As Alex Wickham from Politico points out, the questions Rishi Sunak is getting this morning suggest this audience is not happy with the government's record on crime.

Q: The Conservatives have dropped the ball a little bit, to be honest". The questioner says laughing gas is the least of their problems. People are using much harder drugs. He has skimmed through the action plan document. Some of it is good. But punishments need to be firmer. People probably won't turn up for community sentences. And the government needs to tackle drugs at source.

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