The Government’s sacrificial lamb to appear on BBC’s Question Time floundered terribly
The ‘Question Time’ audience reacts to Chris Philps’s apparent geographical confusion was Chris Philp, minister for crime and policing at the Home Office. MP for Croydon South since 2015, Philp has five years of ministerial experience, and achieved the extraordinary feat of holding two different cabinet positions in Liz Truss’s 49-day premiership: he was chief secretary to the Treasury until his boss, Kwasi Kwarteng, was sacked, when he moved to look after the Cabinet Office.
So the question was the presentation of an apparent absurdity – could they have travelled thousands of miles finally to find themselves back within sight of the place they had fled? What Philp did not want to admit, or had not managed to compute under the fierce studio lights, was that it is absolutely possible, under the, for someone originating in the Democratic Republic of Congo and seeking to enter the United Kingdom illegally to be eligible for deportation to Rwanda. How could it not be so? The regulations could hardly say that illegal entrants will be deported to Rwanda unless they originated within a certain radius of Rwanda itself.
One might prefer a Home Office minister to be more certain than “thinking” what legislation passed literally days before actually said, but that was not the questioner’s the point. The man in the audience had not argued that his family would have been endangered by deportation to Rwanda but that it seemed absurd to send people back to a location a few miles away from where they had started.There will always be instances of apparently absurd outcomes from legislation.
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