hello, it's monday, it's 9am, i'm victoria derbyshire — welcome to the programme. amber rudd quits as home secretary, saying she had inadvertently misled mps over targets for deporting illegal immigrants. this is the moment which proved her undoing... and targets for removals, when were they set? we don't have targets for removals. you did. pressure had been building over her handling of the windrush scandal, in which people with a right to be here were treated as illegal immigrants. we will get reaction from some of the windrush citizens, and from politicians. plus let us know your views, too. it has been called the worst treatment disaster in the history of the nhs. in the 19705 and 805, almost 5000 patients were infected with hiv and hepatitis c after being given drugs made from contaminated blood products. as work begins on a public inquiry into what went wrong, we speak to those most affected. the uncertainty of being, of what it

would mean, ie death, but it would mean in terms of being toxic to other people... if you were another of those treated with the tainted blood, let us know your story this morning. and this is george, who, at just four years old, has dementia, a condition so rare in such a young child that doctors have been unable to tell his parents what his outlook is. george will be joining us with his mum claire, who wants to raise awareness. hello, welcome to the programme. we're live until ”am this morning. later, we're going to talk about the housing crisis and how

it's affecting people over the age of 50 who are renting — research today suggests many of them are having to take extreme measures to cover their rent, including borrowing money from their own children, taking out loans and cutting down on food and heating. if that sounds familiar, do let me know. do get in touch on all the stories we're talking about this morning — use the hashtag #victorialive. if you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate. our top story today — amber rudd has resigned as home secretary, following increasing pressure about her knowledge of targets to deport illegal immigrants. a new letter published in the guardian appeared to show that she wrote to mrs may over a year ago about an "ambitious aim" of increasing enforced removals by 10%. theresa may has accepted her resignation. the shadow home secretary diane abbott said it was the right thing to do. 0ur political correspondent iain watson reports. morning, home secretary.

for most of the past week, amber rudd has been under pressure. will you resign over windrush? late last night, she did just that. in her letter to the prime minister, she says she "inadvertently misled the home affairs select committee over targets for removal of illegal immigrants." and that's why she's going. it was the windrush scandal that marked the beginning of the end for the home secretary. days of damning headlines about the treatment of legal migrants. but on wednesday, mps on the home affairs committee asked amber rudd about targets for removing illegal migrants. these words would end her cabinet career. we don't have targets for removals. she later said there had been local operational targets that she hadn't known about, and apologised. then, on friday, the guardian obtained a memo copied to the home secretary referring directly to national targets. she said she hadn't seen it. but in her resignation letter,

she admitted she "became aware of information provided to my office which makes mention of targets. i should have been aware of this, and take full responsibility for the fact that i was not". in response, the prime minister said she was sorry that amber rudd was resigning and that, "when you addressed the house of commons on the issue of illegal immigration, you answered questions put to you in good faith." but critics say the resignation should have come sooner. labour now wants theresa may herself to address mps and answer questions on immigration. iain watson, bbc news. 0ur political guru norman smith is at westminster. this happened at about 10pm last night? plenty of reaction today? i think amber rudd had just concluded her position was hopeless, she asked her civil servants to go through all the documents on immigration to see if there was any information about gets, lo and behold they came up with members which had been sent to her which did

refer to targets for deportation after she of course told the home affa i rs after she of course told the home affairs select committee there are no targets. so she was pretty much, had no option but to go because she had no option but to go because she had misled mps. now, one of the kyrgios at ease, i think, is how on earth could this have happened? how on earth could this have happened ? you how on earth could this have happened? you have got an immigration policy which is central to the home office, it is at the heart of what the home office does. herformer immigration heart of what the home office does. her former immigration minister brendan lewis said, well, i knew about the targets, we have documents and memos she is copied into talking about targets and it is frankly bizarre that amber rudd still did not seem to know. you can only conclude either she was overwhelmed by the mass of paperwork coming at her in the home office, or maybe she just wasn't focused on that particular bit of immigration, was looking at the new brexit rules surrounding immigration, but either way it meant her position was absolutely impossible. i think we will get an announcement of her

successof will get an announcement of her successor pretty soon, i am told it will not be a wider reshuffle so likely just one person will not be a wider reshuffle so likelyjust one person in, a few people have suggested could it be michael gove? this was his response when he was asked this morning. are you going to be the next home secretary? i am very sad amber rudd have had to leave the government and i hope she will be back soon. would you like to be the next home secretary? would you like to see a brexit supporting secretary in place? the reason we did not get any a nswe i’s , the reason we did not get any answers, i suspect, the reason we did not get any answers, isuspect, is because the reason we did not get any answers, i suspect, is because this is delicate in the brexit conundrum thatis is delicate in the brexit conundrum that is amber rudd was one of the most vociferous and publishers of former remain members of the cabinet, so when she is at the way, if mrs may was to replace her with someone if mrs may was to replace her with someone like michael gove, a prominent brexiteer, it would noticeably told the cabinet much more towards a hard brexit, so this whole resignation gets mired up in

the sort of intricacies of brexit and trying to keep the cabinet altogether. bearing that in mind on brexit, and also the fact that labour described amber rudd as theresa may's human shield, how precarious is this for the prime minister? it is absolutely the case that amber rudd pretty much put her body on the line for theresa may again and again in the current crisis, she stood by mrs may's objective of getting net migration down to the tens of thousands, even though i am pretty sure she did not believe in it. she stood by the hostile environment approached it as —— approach to immigration, she stood by mrs may when she will not take part in the selection television broadcasts. without her out of the way, all of the questions of immigration will of course be directed at theresa may and whether she knew about targets, so and whether she knew about targets, so the pressure, as it were, moves very directed towards mrs may, which is why downing street absolutely did

not want her to go. i am told the decision was 100% amber rudd's they did not want her to go, they insist there was no pressure on her to quit, amber rudd pretty much decided, game is up, i have got to go. cheers, norman, for the moment, thank you very much. your views welcome, of course, more reaction from politicians and windrush citizens, which is where this all began. let's bring you the rest of the news so far this morning, here is rachel in the bbc newsroom. good morning. sainsbury‘s has confirmed plans to merge with asda. combined, the two supermarkets would represent almost a third of the uk grocery market. the merger will have to be approved by the competition and markets authority, but the boss of sainsbury‘s, mike coupe, said the deal would benefit both staff and consumers. we will not close any stores as a result of this transaction, and the nature of the uk market is incredibly competitive and customers have a huge amount of choice, and they exercise that choice. and we believe by bringing these businesses together we can lower

prices and offer better ranges for our customers, as well as making sure that we do a greatjob creating opportunities for our colleagues in both businesses. so we think it's a great deal all around. labour has called for the amount people pay for overdraft fees and interest payments to be capped. shadow chancellorjohn mcdonnell said a labour government would end what he called the "misery" of permanent debt. he estimates the policy could help 2.7 million people who are stuck in a low—paid debt trap. an 18—year—old man has been arrested after a car hit et ii firsts»? ”sf 5 fat 555511: t’t’t t t t t two others are seriously hurt and five are stable.

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