The UK's illegal migration bill is a nasty piece of work. So is the cruelty inflicted on refugee children

'I'm a 16-year-old orphan from an African country escaping a war and religious persecution and I have a sibling living legally in the UK. What is a safe and legal route for me to come to the UK?" The home secretary, Suella Braverman, could not answer this question from Conservative MP Tim Loughton last November. One of the many problems with the illegal migration bill currently ricocheting its way through parliament is that it offers no answers to this question. It was a very long week for those of us in the Lords scrutinising the bill. The government's anxiety to…