26 May 2023. Nigel Biggar for The Telegraph.

The end is just and the means, while severe, are not immoral

Earlier in May, the Archbishop of Canterbury described the Government’s illegal migration bill as “morally unacceptable”. This week, he advanced his opposition to the bill’s proposal to remove illegal cross-Channel migrants to Rwanda, by tabling a pair of amendments. Yet the reasons that he and his episcopal colleagues gave for their moral condemnation earlier this month were no more compelling than the ones they gave last year….