'A Breach Of Human Decency': James O'Brien Savages Tory Frontbencher's Immigration Comments

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<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/68f6235d180000fb1be8eb76.jpeg?ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="James O'Brien savaged Katie Lam on LBC" data-caption="James O'Brien savaged Katie Lam on LBC" data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="LBC/Getty" />James O'Brien savaged Katie Lam on LBC</div><div class="content-list-component text"><p>LBC presenter <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/james-obrien/">James O’Brien </a>accused a senior <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/conservative-party/">Tory</a> of a “breach of the tenets of human decency” after she said some immigrants living legally in the UK should be deported.</p><p>Shadow Home Office minister Katie Lam <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/katie-lam-mp-hopeful-tory-party-leader-xd7bbjw09" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">told The Times </a>that would leave the UK more “culturally coherent”.</p><p>Lam said: “Everybody who’s in this country illegally I think needs to go home.</p><p>“There are also a large number of people in this country who came here legally, but in effect shouldn’t have been able to do so. It’s not the fault of the individuals who came here, they just shouldn’t have been able to do so. They will also need to go home.</p><p>“What that will leave is a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people.”</p><p>In a monologue on his LBC show on Monday, O’Brien said: “This is an extraordinary breach of what I would describe as the basic tenets of common decency, and it speaks to something that has been happening over the course of the last 12 months, that we are all a little bit guilty of not registering.</p><p>“So people like me, and by association you, are not talking abo
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