Grayling welcomes victory for "basic decency" in Gurkha case

Chris Grayling hailed a “great victory for Joanna Lumley and her well-run campaign” after the Government finally announced they will allow Gurkhas to settle in the UK.

The Shadow Home Secretary applauded the actress for having “publicly embarrassed” Labour Ministers and “reminded us all of the role that the Gurkhas have played in helping defend this country over the centuries”.

And he stressed that the Gurkha case was first and foremost about “basic decency”:

“People from around the world have come to live in this country in the past decade. There was never a justification to deny that right to a group of people who have long lived in the nation’s affections, and who have risked, and often given their lives for its protection.”

Chris said that it was a shame that the Government had to be “dragged kicking and screaming through the Courts and then through the crowds of Gurkhas outside parliament before it finally did the right thing.”