Former leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg has said he is "content" the government's new Rwanda Bill, describing it as "constituently tidy". Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 What I've seen on it, I think it is as much as could get through
00:03 the House of Commons and the House of Lords,
00:05 and it's Parliament doing Parliament's job.
00:08 That is to say, Parliament is the supreme form of law
00:11 in this country.
00:13 The Supreme Court has ruled.
00:15 Parliament is going to disagree with that
00:17 and say that Rwanda is safe as a matter of law of this land,
00:21 and that's quite proper and it's constitutionally very tidy.
00:24 Actually, I'm content with this.
00:25 I know others aren't.
00:26 Others are concerned about removing
00:28 the right of individual appeal.
00:30 I think in our constitutional system,
00:33 the state is beneath the law and doesn't have arbitrary power,
00:37 and therefore we are all entitled to some judicial appeal
00:42 on an act that affects us individually.
00:44 So I'm happy with that.
00:46 I know others are concerned that this will delay things,
00:50 but the law's delay is, I think, a quotation from Shakespeare,
00:53 isn't it?
00:53 Personally, I would be in favour of leaving
00:55 the European Convention, but I think
00:57 that would need to be a policy put forward in a manifesto
01:01 at a general election.
01:02 I don't think it's one you can do sort of willy-nilly