Former Home Secretary James Cleverly criticises the Government’s Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill as a missed opportunity that fails to deliver bold, game-changing solutions. While the new Border Security Command appears strong in name, it lacks the necessary powers to be effective. Additionally, the Bill offers no viable solution for failed asylum seekers from countries deemed too unsafe to return them to.
Responding to the Government statement on the negotiations of the transfer of sovereignty of the Chagos islands to Mauritius, former Foreign Secretary James Cleverly calls on the Government to ensure we get a good deal and walk away if that is not the case.
Following the statement on the national cancer plan, James Cleverly urges the Government to leverage the NHS’s very large database of historical tissue samples. He calls for the use of AI to do a retrospective analysis to identify patterns that could help speed up diagnosis across a whole range of cancers.