Brandon Lewis has admitted knowing about attempts to increase the number of government deportations and discussing them with Amber Rudd while a minister in her department, increasing pressure on the home secretary to resign. Rudd told the committee: “We do not have targets for removals.”Interviewed on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, Lewis said he had discussed increasing the number of removals with Rudd. The home secretary insisted on Friday night that she had not seen the leaked memo “although it was copied to my office, as many documents are”. In a series of late-night tweets, Rudd apologised for not being aware of documents, leaked to the Guardian, which set out immigration removal targets. She said she had not seen a memo referring to the targets, even though it was copied to her office.

Source: The Guardian April 29, 2018 10:17 UTC