Senior ministers have rallied round beleaguered Amber Rudd after she admitted she should have known about official targets for removing illegal immigrants. The issue has become particularly toxic because of coverage of the Windrush generation of migrants from the Caribbean. I think that is quite wrong.”The justice secretary, David Gauke, said Rudd was an “excellent” home secretary who had accepted she made a mistake. “I am just surprised that she doesn’t seem to take the issue seriously enough to offer her resignation,” she told Today. The decision to set a “broad numerical target” could have contributed to the Windrush fiasco, Abbott said.

Source: The Guardian April 28, 2018 09:39 UTC