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Evening Standard
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Josh Salisbury and Lydia Chantler-Hicks

London politics LIVE: Archbishop of Canterbury condemns Illegal Migration Bill as ‘morally unacceptable’ in House of Lords

The Archbishop of Canterbury has launched a withering attack on the Government’s plans to tackle the small boats crisis, as they faced their first test in the House of Lords on Wednesday.

The Most Rev Justin Welby argued the Illegal Migration Bill risked “great damage” to the UK’s reputation at home and abroad and said it was “morally unacceptable” to leave the poorest countries to deal with the migration crisis.

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