TO its creators, it’s firm but fair, proportionate and radical. To its critics, it’s cruel, cold-hearted and morally repugnant.
Just days before MPs leave Westminster for their summer break, they will spend two days from Monday week debating the UK Government’s highly contentious Nationality and Borders Bill.
Passions will run high. Very high.
Indeed, there has already been a political prelude with James Dornan, the SNP’s MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, unleashing his emotions towards Jacob Rees-Mogg after the Commons Leader declared in an alliterative tweet: “The bands of blighters bringing illegal entrants to Blighty will be broken up by this brilliant borders bill.”