PA Wire/PA Images Sadiq Khan said Amber Rudd 'appears completely unaware about what is going on in her own department'Sadiq Khan has said Amber Rudd must resign, saying it “beggars belief” for her to claim she did not know the Home Office had targets for the number of people to deport amid the Windrush scandal. PA Wire/PA Images Amber Rudd told MPs there were targets but said she not aware of them but she was sent a memo in 2017 about them, which was later leakedKhan has previously held off calling for Rudd to resign, though both Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott, the shadow home secretary, did earlier this week. But now Khan writes in Sunday’s Observer: “The latest revelations have exposed Amber Rudd even further as someone who appears completely unaware about what is going on in her own department. “What the home secretary and prime minister don’t appear to understand is that the Windrush scandal is the direct consequence of their policies and not just another example of the administrative chaos at the Home Office. “It is about a generation who have lived all their lives here suddenly feeling they are not wanted here.

Source: Huffington Post April 28, 2018 21:22 UTC