Fury over ministers’ plans to pay millions in legal aid to ‘leftie’ asylum lawyers
MINISTERS sparked fury over plans to pay millions in legal aid to “leftie” asylum lawyers.
Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood is preparing to announce extra funding to represent the migrants to speed up the processing backlog.
Court delays are thwarting efforts to get them out of hotels and on return flights — or to be given leave to stay.
But the plan has sparked fury for spending even more taxpayer cash.
Tory MP Nick Timothy said: “The public want the Channel crossings stopped and illegal immigrants deported.
“Yet Labour’s latest big idea is to throw yet more public money at claimant lawyers who will do anything to keep illegal immigrants in the country.
“It says everything about their completely wrongheaded priorities.”
Reform UK deputy Richard Tice added: “This needs to be called out for what it is.
“This is a left wing Government funding lefty lawyers to game the legal system so that those who arrive here illegally can stay in the country.”