Labour is scrapping immigration laws which would allow ministers to throw out any future asylum claim by Abu Wadee, the Conservatives warned last night.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp urged Sir Keir Starmer’s Government to use measures passed by the Tories when they were in power.
The Tories created a new power for ministers to rule inadmissible any asylum claims by individuals who came here ‘without leave to enter’.
That power is due to be repealed under Labour’s Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, which is currently before Parliament.
Mr Philp said: ‘The Government must kick out this despicable individual as quickly as possible.
‘But the changes the Labour Government are now proposing in their borders bill will make that far harder, if not impossible, to achieve.
‘The measures passed by the Conservatives provide the Government with powers to remove exactly this kind of individual.
‘Labour must urgently reconsider its ill-advised proposals to ditch these important powers.’
Labour is scrapping immigration laws which would allow ministers to throw out any future asylum claim by Abu Wadee (pictured)
Palestinian Abu Wadee (pictured) was staying at a Home Office asylum hotel in Manchester when he was arrested on Sunday night
He was remanded in custody under his real name of Mosab Abdulkarim al-Gassas after pleading not guilty to knowingly arriving in the UK without valid entry clearance
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp urged Sir Keir Starmer’s Government to use Tory measures
The Tories have also tabled amendments to the new borders bill which would stop human rights laws being deployed in immigration legal challenges.
Mr Philp said: ‘If Starmer doesn’t back the Conservatives’ proposals to disapply the Human Rights Act from immigration matters and ensure illegal immigrants are deported, it will show Labour are not serious about protecting our borders.’
More than 90 per cent of migrants who arrive by small boat go on to lodge asylum claims.
Of the 151,138 small boat migrants who arrived in Britain from the start of the crisis in 2018 until the end of last year only 4,995 – or three per cent of the total – have been removed, latest Home Office figures show.
