Rudd 1) The Home Secretary has resigned after ‘inadvertently misleading’ MPs ‘Amber Rudd was forced out of the government last night after she admitted that she misled parliament over Home Office deportation targets in the fallout from the Windrush scandal. Hours before she was due to appear before MPs to deny that she had set […]
Six questions for Rudd over illegal immigrants, and claims that she wants a new liberal system “The documents outline plans to create a “labour mobility partnership” with Brussels in which EU migrants would be given preferential access to benefits, healthcare and the UK jobs market — undermining claims that free movement would end when Britain […]
Rudd 1) Her office was sent a Home Office memo with targets for removing illegal immigrants “Amber Rudd’s insistence that she knew nothing of Home Office targets for immigration removals risks unravelling following the leak of a secret internal document prepared for her and other senior ministers. The six-page memo, passed to the Guardian, says […]
Rudd faces fresh woe over deportation targets… “Amber Rudd said that she would cease immigration removal targets yesterday as she rejected calls for her to quit over her handling of the Windrush scandal. The home secretary made the promise a day after she denied the existence of any such performance targets, having insisted to MPs: “We don’t […]
Brexit: Papers pick up DUP threat to bring down the Government from our interview… “The DUP has warned it will bring down Theresa May’s Government if Northern Ireland is forced to stay in the Single Market or Customs Union after Brexit. Nigel Dodds, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party at Westminster, said his party would […]
Brexit: May accused of putting ‘head in the sand’ over customs union showdown… “Theresa May today faced claims she is ducking a potentially explosive Cabinet clash over the future trade relations with the EU. Brexit Secretary David Davis, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Trade Secretary Liam Fox are concerned that proposals for a so-called ‘customs partnership’ could compromise […]
Rudd promises Windrush generation British citizenship and a “change of culture” at the Home Office ‘Amber Rudd has vowed to change the culture of the Home Office amid concerns that the Windrush immigration scandal could fuel an exodus of ethnic minority support for the Tories. The home secretary unveiled an emergency package of measures designed […]
May faces Cabinet ‘showdown’ over customs union ‘David Davis, Liam Fox and Boris Johnson are to press the prime minister to abandon the plan as fears grow that she is paving the way for a compromise on the issue. They will confront her at a meeting of the cabinet’s Brexit sub-committee, scheduled for Wednesday. The […]
Gove and Johnson accused of jeopardising Brexit with leadership plots “Cabinet big guns risk wrecking Brexit because they are too busy plotting to succeed Theresa May, it was claimed last night. Silent ministers have been accused of taking their eye off the ball – and giving Remainers a free rein to dictate the agenda. Top Tories are furious after […]
Windrush 1) Home Secretary accused of delaying new immigration policy “Amber Rudd is at the centre of a new cabinet row over delays to Britain’s post-Brexit immigration policy. The home secretary is being pressed by Brexit-supporting ministers to speed up a bill that is supposed to settle the new immigration system after Britain leaves the […]
EU rejects Government’s plans for leaving the Customs Union… “The EU has comprehensively rejected British proposals for avoiding a hard border in Northern Ireland in a move which will cast serious doubt on the UK’s ability to leave the customs union, The Telegraph has learned. Senior EU diplomatic sources said that Mrs May’s plan for avoiding a hard border in […]
Windrush: Duncan says he could not pass Home Office tests… “A Foreign Office Minister today admitted he could not meet the same tough immigration tests to prove his nationality demanded of Windrush immigrants. Sir Alan Duncan said he is ‘ashamed’ and embarrassed at the fiasco, which has seen people who have lived in the UK for years […]
May apologises to the Windrush generation…and it emerges the Home Office destroyed landing cards in 2010 ‘Theresa May has apologised to Caribbean leaders over the treatment of Windrush generation migrants who have been threatened with deportation despite being in the UK legally. After talks in Downing Street yesterday the prime minister said that she was […]
Government wins Syria vote – but Corbyn secures a second debate today ‘Mrs May defended her decision during six hours of debate on Monday. She said there was evidence the Assad government was behind the chemical weapons attack in Douma and it was “legally right” to join the strikes. Labour leader Mr Corbyn said the […]
Syria 1) May to ask for emergency debate. Corbyn to ask for a vote “Theresa May will argue today that she struck against the Assad regime “in the national interest” as she awaits the verdict of the Commons on her handling of the military action in Syria. After coming under intensifying pressure during the weekend […]