WATCH: Gauke defends the “central policy” of the hostile environment
“But clearly there have been very significant failures in terms of how this has been implemented, and it’s right that we address that.”
WATCH: Brokenshire – “Clearly things have gone wrong” on Windrush
The former Northern Irish Secretary explains to Peston his horror at the current Home Office scandal and how the Government should correct it.
WATCH: Ici Londres – After the Windrush scandal, it is all the more important for liberal Leavers to speak up, argues Hannan
One of the few positive things to come out of the appalling affair is the way it revealed the British people are far from the anti-immigrant caricature some paint of them.
WATCH: May v Corbyn – “The decision to destroy the landing cards was taken in 2009 under a Labour government”
The Labour Leader had asked if the Prime Minister had signed off the decision as Home Secretary.
WATCH: Javid on antisemitism – “We cannot ignore the particular concern with elements within the Labour Party”
“Nor can we ignore the fact that this increasing concern has correlated with the current Leader of the Opposition, and the activists that have come with him.”
WATCH: John Mann tells the Commons that his wife has been threatened with rape by a leftist anti-semite
“I didn’t expect my daughter to be rung by Special Branch to check her movements in this country.”
WATCH: The Prime Minister’s Windrush apology – “We are genuinely sorry”, she tells Caribbean leaders
“The Windrush generation helped to build the country we are today. I want to dispel any impression that my Government is clamping down on Commonwealth citizens.”
WATCH: May – “Neither I nor this government take instructions from any president or any other national government”
The Prime Minister rejects the suggestion that Donald Trump ordered the UK to join airstrikes against the Assad regime’s chemical weapons facilities.
WATCH: May – “This was about the use of chemical weapons and the prevention of future suffering”
The Prime Minister says that military action was not about regime change or intervention in civil war.
WATCH: Corbyn tells the Prime Minister she shouldn’t take her lead from Trump. She rolls her eyeballs.
“This statement serves as a reminder that the Prime Minister is accountable to this Parliament – not to the whims of the US President,” he says.
WATCH: Windrush 2) Rudd – “I am very sorry for any confusion or anxiety felt”
“I am announcing new dedicated team that will be set up to help these people evidence their right to be here.”
WATCH: Windrush 1) Lammy – “How many people have been deported?”
“It is inhumane and cruel for so many of that generation to have suffered for so long in this condition.”
WATCH: Cable – It’s “very important for the Prime Minister to build a consensus” on Syria, “which she hasn’t done”
The Liberal Democrat Leader warns that May could come to regret not holding a Commons vote if the operation goes “very badly pear-shaped”.
WATCH: Lidington – “We are neither shutting our eyes nor holding our noses” to Assad’s other war crimes
As well as punishing the use of chemical weapons, “we are seeking to hold Assad to account at the UN Security Council…despite the fact that he is protected by Russia”.
WATCH: Thornberry – “It cannot be Donald Trump and a couple of allies deciding unilaterally” on Syria
“We have been here before, when we have not had clear evidence about weapons of mass destruction.”