Last night @AnthonyMangnal1 voted for the Illegal Migration Bill – a law that will block people coming to the UK by boat to seek asylum, but provides no safe and legal routes for them.
A law that will mean victims of trafficking are criminalised and deported, not supported.
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A law that will mean women who are the victims of rape and sexual violence in war will be forbidden from seeking sanctuary here.
Yet this is the MP who said in the House in March last year: “Rape and sexual violence have become weapons of war. They are the tools of the vicious
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and the violent, and the consequences have such long and far-reaching impacts on the individuals, their families and their communities.”
He spoke of how this is happening in Tigray, in Myanmar and in Iraq – whose residents have no legal route to claim asylum in the UK.
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“The UK’s action and leadership on this subject matters and has proven to be world leading,” he said.
Yet how can it be ‘world leading’ to support an initiative to prevent sexual violence in conflict, yet actively work to criminalise any woman who wants to seek safe haven in the
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UK as a victim of this hideous crime?
It is sad those Tory MPs who had the backbone to stand up against this repugnant bill didn’t vote against it last night, but chose to abstain.
Is he proud to support a bill condemned by the UN as undermining human rights and refugee law?
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