Peers from Britain’s House of lords have backed Indian professionals caught up in a visa row over their right to live and work in the UK, terming the Government’s treatment of skilled workers from countries outside the EU as a “national scandal”.
During a debate on ‘Immigration: Hostile Environment’ in the House of lords yesterday, lord Dick Taverne, a liberal Democrat peer said, “This treatment is a national scandal every bit as outrageous as the treatment of the Windrush immigrants. A monstrous injustice is being perpetrated by our Government in our name.”
“If it is not remedied, the Home Office will not only be breaking every canon of a civilised society, but ignoring one of the most basic tenets of the rule of law — the golden rule that someone is assumed innocent until proved guilty,” he said.