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Sajid Javid and the Customs Union
Theresa May has appointed a new member to the Brexit Cabinet Committee just two days before what could be one of its most decisive meetings.
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The Home Secretary has rejected calls for an inquiry into alleged anti-Muslim behaviour by Conservative politicians. Earlier this week the former party chair Baroness Warsi backed such calls saying the party had to act on Islamaphobia within its ranks. Her comments come as Tory councillor Stephen Ardley was suspended from the party, after it was…
Immigration, and our attitude to it, has rarely been out of the headlines, as these revelatory Channel 4 News reports by Simon Israel from the last decade show.
For weeks, the Home Office under Amber Rudd said repeatedly that they were not aware of any Windrush deportations,although they were checking. Today, Home Secretary Sajid Javid has admitted that more than 60 people caught up in the Windrush scandal may have been wrongly deported, and there could be more. When he was appointed last…
The public inquiry into undercover policing won’t hand it’s final report to the Home Secretary for another 5 years – in 2023. The revelation comes in the publication of a strategic review of the inquiry into 40 years of undercover policing which opened in 2015 and but will only begin to hear evidence in public…
Theresa May’s adviser has been tasked with investigating how the former home secretary, Amber Rudd, came to wrongly tell MPs that the government did not have targets for deporting people. Home Office bosses faced a grilling by MPs today and said the information given last month during the Windrush scandal was “regrettably confused”. Meanwhile, the…
New figures, requested by FactCheck, shed light on the number of people who were potentially at risk of being deported in the Windrush Scandal.
Theresa May has appointed a new member to the Brexit Cabinet Committee just two days before what could be one of its most decisive meetings.
Transport Minister Jo Johnson has told Amber Rudd she should remain in her position as Home Secretary and correct the mistakes her department has made during the Windrush scandal.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd is facing more pressure over her claim that she didn’t know anything about immigration removal targets, after a leaked internal memo which she was apparently sent in June last year referring to specific targets.
Labour’s Yvette Cooper – chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee – questioned the Home Secretary Amber Rudd yesterday.
Yesterday she said there were no immigration removal targets. Today the Home Secretary Amber Rudd admitted there were – but declared that what she called ”local” targets would now be abolished. Labour accused her of trying to blame officials – again demanding that she resign as the fallout over the Windrush scandal continues. The Home…
The Windrush scandal dominated proceedings in Westminster today, with Home Secretary Amber Rudd coming under more pressure to resign. Jeremy Corbyn demanded the government rethink what he called its “cruel” immigration policy and get rid of “bogus” targets. Ms Rudd told MPs she bitterly regretted her failure to grasp the scale of the scandal sooner.…
Both Labour and the Conservatives have blamed each other for destroying “landing cards” from the Windrush generation. But who’s really responsible? And would they have made made a difference to someone threatened with deportation?
The High Commissioner for Barbados, Guy Hewitt, who met Home Secretary Amber Rudd and immigration staff, Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott, and Conservative MP Kwasi Kwarteng discuss the Windrush controversy.
In the Commons, the Home Secretary defended the government’s immigration policy, but admitted its impact had been “unintended and sometimes devastating”. Labour’s Diane Abbott said she blamed Amber Rudd personally for the Windrush scandal, declaring that she had allowed it to happen.