Albert Tong

EDM number 1013 in 1995-96, proposed by Matthew Taylor on 18/06/1996.

That this House notes that the Home Secretary has pledged to deport Mr Albert Tong, despite the overwhelming support of people in Cornwall for Mr Tong to be allowed to stay in the country, measured by polls conducted by both West Country Television and the Western Morning News; notes that Mr Tong has lived in the United Kingdom for 17 years, and has never had recourse to any state funds; notes that Mr Tong's deportation will separate him from his Cornish born wife and his Cornish born three year old daughter; further notes that were the family to join him in Hong Kong they would have nowhere to live and no way of earning a living in a strange country, and that their position would be uncertain after the handover to China in 1997; believes that the views and actions of the Home Secretary in seeking to break up this Cornish family are inhumane; and calls on the Government to reconsider and allow the family to stay together peacefully in Cornwall.

This motion has been signed by a total of 24 MPs.