The Labor Party is considering introducing emergency legislation to deport the Pakistan-born leader of a Rochdale grooming gang.Border Protection and Asylum Minister Alex Norris was asked in the House of Commons whether the government could fast-track legislation to pave the way for Shabbir Ahmed to be deported, he said, “all options are on the table”.Ahmed, 73, known as “Daddy” to his victims, was released last week after serving 14 years of a 22-year sentence for 30 child rape offences. He was responsible for grooming vulnerable white girls as young as 12, giving them alcohol and drugs, gang-raping them in rooms above takeaway shops in Oldham and Rochdale and taking them to different flats for sex.The families of his victims said they felt horrified and disappointed by his release.Ahmed, who came to Britain from Punjab, Pakistan in 1967 at the age of 14, held dual British and Pakistani citizenship when he was convicted.He was stripped of his British citizenship in 2016 and was expected to be deported to Pakistan if released. He managed to avoid deportation because, having arrived in Britain before 1971, he is exempt due to Section 7 of the Immigration Act 1971, which protected the rights of Commonwealth and Irish citizens who were already in Britain when the Act came into effect on January 1, 1973. Provisions were put in place to protect the windrush generation.Lamm said: “The idea that they could be allowed to remain in this country because of a section of a decades-old law designed for an entirely different time and context is not only absurd, but disgusting.”Norris said he would consider proposals put forward by the Conservatives to remove sections of the Act that protect any Commonwealth citizen from deportation.Some MPs expressed apprehension that Pakistan might not accept them. Tory MP Dr Neil Shastri-Hurst said: “Are ministers prepared to use sanctions against Pakistan to ensure the deportation of this serious individual?”Norris replied: “We want to work together with the Government of Pakistan to remove people who have no right to be here and that’s what we’re doing.”