We must oppose illegal immigration. But making life harder for legitimate residents helps nobody.
“It is absolutely right that, across this House, we should all be absolutely clear in our determination to ensure that we stamp out racism in every form.”
The Home Office won’t be fit for purpose to administer a post-Brexit migration system without a full understanding of what went wrong.
Even in lefty France, socialist policies are now being dumped by Emmanuel Macron in favour of free markets. Now is the time to develop our next round of big ideas.
The Shadow Equalities Minister alleges that the task force the Prime Minister has put together to deal with Windrush cases is inadequate.
“We think if you’re a politician in charge of a department, and a department does its job as badly as the Home Office has clearly been doing, you should resign.”
“But clearly there have been very significant failures in terms of how this has been implemented, and it’s right that we address that.”
The former Northern Irish Secretary explains to Peston his horror at the current Home Office scandal and how the Government should correct it.
One or the other would be easier to solve – and politically helpful to at least somebody. As it is, our immigration system exhibits the worst of both worlds.
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.
The Labour Leader had asked if the Prime Minister had signed off the decision as Home Secretary.
He made grotesque errors of taste and judgement – see “Rivers of Blood”. But even his critics admit that he was one of the great parliamentarians of the 20th century.
“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.”
Without a firm, stated base, we are vulnerable to being pushed around by the Commission. Ministers might find it uncomfortable to talk numbers, but they must.