Liberal Democrats Vow to Scrap Illegal Migration Act

The party said its will set up ’safe and legal routes’ to asylum in the UK and increase pay for early education during the first day of its autumn conference.

A group of people thought to be migrants crossing the Channel in a small boat traveling from the coast of France and heading in the direction of Dover, Kent, on Aug. 29, 2023. PA Media

The Liberal Democrats vowed to repeal the Illegal Migration Act as the party kicked off its autumn conference on Saturday.

Moving the motion at the conference in Bournemouth, Tim Farron, MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale, said the act will be scrapped “in full,” with “no caveats, no excuses, no cowardly backtracking” on “day one of a Liberal Democrat administration.”