Amber Rudd 'sorry' for appalling treatment of Windrush-era citizens

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3. "significant criticism of her own department"?!

Why, it's as if somebody else was responsible for running it!

John Reid as Home Secretary many years ago said the Home office wasn't "fit for purpose". It still isn't, thanks to mismanagement by Labour and the Tories under May and now Rudd. This was the result of a deliberate set of policies to make the UK a hostile environment for "incomers", not a case of "mistakes were made".

I doubt anything would have happened to address the Windrush scandals if not for dogged reporting by the likes of the Guardian's Amelia Gentleman and the government's embarrassment at the coincidence of the Commonwealth Heads of Government summit, where May initially refused to have the matter discussed at all.

"This is about individuals", eh? Well every week we hear another horrible tale of a family ripped apart or forced to leave the country, having done their best to comply with the rules in the face of shifting goalposts and an inhuman bureaucracy - it's not just the Windrush generation.

I'm with David Lammy. Shame on May and all those who've sought cheap votes by pandering to the racists among us.