Crossbench peer and chancellor of the University of the West of England Baroness Butler-Sloss said she was concerned that "Malaysian students who come to Bristol to do the bar vocational course or the solicitors course in order to go back and better run the rule of law in Malaysia" would be unable to study in the UK after the changes.

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Former judge and crossbencher Baroness Butler-Sloss agreed, claiming that, unless the cross-party amendment was accepted, a "large number of victims" would "fall through the net".

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First Minister Carwyn Jones, assembly Presiding Officer Rosemary Butler and Welsh Office ministers Stephen Crabb and Baroness Randerson were among representatives from the Welsh political arena.

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