Katie Lam: The shabby Government ambiguity that lets Shabir, a child rapist, free to stay in the UK
The Home Secretary, for example, has the power to change the rules. Between Parliament’s absolute power, and the broad powers delegated to ministers – a Government has the ability to act very quickly and very decisively. But will it?
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Katie Lam is a shadow Home Office minister and MP for Weald of Kent. Earlier this week, I asked the Government whether they’d deport Shabir Ahmed, the ringleader of the Rochdale grooming gang who is now back on the streets. After being convicted in 2012 for thirty counts of child rape, Ahmed has been released from prison early, as far too many dangerous prisoners now are. When he was convicted, his victims were promised that he’d be sent back to Pakistan – but now, the Government say that this isn’t possible, because of a loophole in a decades-old law. Under the 1971 Immigration Act, citizens of Commonwealth countries can’t be deported, if they arrived in Britain before 1973 and have lived here for more than five years.
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