who is in charge of the home office with these new stricter policies were being designed yes today's prime minister to resign so as the public outcry grows there's now a political as well as moral imperative to treat the when dressed generation fairly barnaby phillips al-jazeera london well the british prime minister is a man who we saw in bonn of his package there today apologized to several caribbean leaders over this when controversy the leaders are in london as we've been hearing for chalky the commonwealth heads of government meeting now here's a little taste of what mrs may said today. i think this is very seriously. jerry apologized to the house of commons yesterday very hands on isn't. over. today. ok there we are here we go let's get the thoughts of our guests today here on inside story joining us from london is sally downie and c.e.o. of praxis now that's an organization that provides assistance to people affected by the wind rush controversy joining us from nottingham is clive foster a member of the nottingham citizens group welcome to you both clive can you just walk us t

i thought john reid who split the home office into the home office and separate justice the home officee and separatejustice department, had laid the basis for sorting it out but that was more than ten years ago and it is still dysfunctional. the difficult bits were left with the home office. yeah. what's the answer? get a decent civil service, i suggest. that is a big challenge. i thought you would say get a decent home secretary but it has come round to the home, civil service. home secretary but it has come round to the home, civil servicelj home secretary but it has come round to the home, civil service. i wonder what the permanent secretaries doing, i don't know, i will probably get nasty letters in the morning for saying things like that but it seems somehow the civil service machine is not working as it should do and we have talked about the leaks already which is egregious, but i think the machine itself isn't functioning properly. for anybody knew in the job, theresa may, she is the one with the experience to handle this,... perhaps she should be sent back to sort it out, she's

it's really complicated the home office starts from a position of not believing so there's this coat of disbelief people are treated with a lack of respect that treated with to stay and they're required to provide evidence that frankly in some cases lay in some cases doesn't exist or is just excessive so no less than one piece of official documentary evidence for every year that someone's been in the u.k. but preferably four pieces of documentary evidence so the task of trying to actually research and gather that information to prove to the home office that you know. status and i actually what's happening is that people have been falling individually into this great black hole so as a charity we've been supporting people who become straight homeless people who have been refused health care or who have been given health care and then given a very large bill and the fact that they can't pay the bill then goes on to their immigration record so people have had doors closed in their face trying to sort it out is really difficult you need legal help and there's no legal aid of a vailable s

she did not want to go, but she would have felt she had a watch on because the home office and the homey need to have credibility when they are dealing with especially sensitive issues such as immigration. and if she found documents that might have suggested she would have known about a policy she would have known about a policy she denies, then that loss of credibility would have made a position is impossible in any case. at these problems of credibility not just does, but once for the home office itself? —— are these? were at the leaks office itself? —— are these? were at the lea ks coming office itself? —— are these? were at the leaks coming from, for a start? we don't know whether these are motivated to target the home secretary or an attempt to try to expose government policy. there are certainly some discontent among civil servants over the tightening up civil servants over the tightening up of the so—called hostile environment policy where people were not simply encouraging a greater level of illegal immigrants that should be here, but the many documents from people who might not

as i've said already, i think that was a sign of the ineptitude and insensitivity of the home office,nd that is obviously something the home secretary must ta ke something the home secretary must take responsibility for. john rentoul, looking at potential candidates for this great office of state, who is next for this poisoned chalice? it could be sajid javid, the first non—white home secretary, that would be quite a signal to send to the ethnic minority communities. i think he was a remainer, wasn't he? although he had been a brexiteer. i think he was. michael gove, that would be the most extraordinary comeback for michael gove because he is a brexiteer. he got on so badly with theresa may when theresa may was home secretary it would be astonishing if she appointed him. i don't know who else i can't think who the other candidates would be. i'm going to hold you two for a moment, if you can pause and collect your thoughts for a minute because we are joined by another political correspondent sebastien haining of the financial times with his take on the fast—moving events of this evenin

under her, the home office became heartless and hopeless. reporter: was it theresa may? ning. while this home secretary has to deal with an accidental mess, the overall crackdown under the former home secretary was entirely deliberate. listen to this. we want to ensure that only legal migrants have access to the labour market, free health services, housing, bank accounts and driving licences. and this is notjust about making the uk a more hostile place for illegal migrants. it is also about fairness. the intense push by the government had eyebrow—raising tactics, but ministers believed the home office had hefty public support. if you haven't got all of the right paperwork, you're basically a bad guy, and they have a culture of disbelief. and their absolute commitment, since 2010, has been to cut immigration and drive as many people as they can out of the country. and i think it is that cultural assumption which has driven a lot of the problems we've seen around the windrush generation. this mess wasn't deliberately made here at the home office, but it didn't come from now

i think the home office and government has handled the situation appallingly also they must have seenedia reports, they had letters coming from mps, ministers would reply to the letters, the immigration minister and home secretary, they could see a pattern of what was happening that people who had spent virtually all their adult lives here, giving so much to our economy and public services were being treated in a really disgraceful way. in any case, earlier today the foreign office confirmed that... in april 2016 of course the home secretary was theresa may. we also learned that some huge questions remain unanswered, like how many people had been wrongly imprisoned. we need to know if the state has wrongly incarcerated people. i agree with that but how far back would you suggest we should go? we certainly need to know about the last few years and i think to go back as far as is reasonably possible. we don't know how many people have lost health care. it is difficult for us to work out whether anybody in individually has been effected by applying for support in a hospital and has or ha

and in a couple of key areas which happened to fall under the home office, police cuts and windrush, tely directly involved with, it is looking... we all remember those posters on the vans, go home, it was the act she brought in herself which toughened up brought in herself which toughened up the rules which led employers and members had to work out the immigration status of tenants and the boys, which is how a lot of these people suddenly stopped receiving their pensions and were reported to the authorities because they couldn't prove their identification, and of course they couldn't, we knew that and the crisis could have been averted but it wasn't. let's move on to the telegraph. enough is enough, labour fury at corbyn over anti—semitism. this was a series of labour mps who stood up today and talked about their own experiences. this has been bubbling for many weeks now, around jeremy corbyn's attitude towards the anti—semitism that has been directed towards not only members of his own party, but members of parliament more generally, and thejewish community. there was a debate in pa

we will ask where the home office is going and where amber rudd is going. od evening and welcome to bbc news. the home secretary has spoken of her bitter regret at failing to grasp the scale of the problem involving the status of caribbean migrants in the uk. amber rudd and her predecessor, theresa may, are under intense pressure after it emerged that long—term residents who came here in the decades after the second world war were being challenged, despite living here legally. the bbc understands that the home office and number 10 were both told about the problems in 2016. labour says the home secretary should now resign, as our political editor laura kuenssberg reports. home secretary, will you resign over windrush? who knew, and when? the home secretary, number 10 — everyone around here says they are sorry now. foreign secretary, is the cabinet united on immigration? but how did the windrush scandal slip the government's notice? her department is taking most of the strain. i bitterly, deeply regret that i didn't see it as more than individual cases that ha

the home office and its culture is at the centre of this.rtly with a former head of the civil service, and a defender of the tougher immigration controls. but everybody agrees that it's too easy in some abstract way to support a policy while forgetting what it actually means in real cases, which means we should keep reminding ourselves what the human effects have been. james clayton has been talking to clayton barnes and his daughter — he's a jamaican national who worked as a roofer here for half a century and had indefinite leave to remain, but unwittingly forfeited it when he retired to jamaica, only to find he couldn't get back in to even visit his family. despite having a uk pension. dad came to the uk around 1959. lived a full life, got married, had a house here. travel back and forth to jamaica to see family. he had indefinite leave to remain in his passport, a stamp in the passport, which he never had any problems with. he just used to come and go. with having a jamaican passport with indefinite leave there was no need to have a briti

she has faced criticism over the home office removal targets and her knowledge of them. don't have targets for removals. she was summoned to clarify in the house of commons. she admitted there were local targets but claimed she had not known. there are some offices which are working with them. unfortunately i was not aware of them and i want to be aware of them. that is why i am now putting in place different measures to ensure that that happens. then today the revelation. the guardian obtained a memo dated last year copied to the home secretary and her senior team referring directly to national targets. and that prompted amber rudd's resignation tonight. for someone tipped as a potential leader, it is a brutal come—down. since entering parliament in 2010 she has written through the ranks to the cabinet where she has been a crucial support to theresa may. she even stood in for the prime minister during last year's election debates. the fact is we have to concentrate oui’ the fact is we have to concentrate our resources on the fact is we have to concentrate oui’ resources

>> prime minister. >> to the gentlemen, the home office is a great department of state which touches peoples lives everyday in a whole variety of ways. my right -- the home secretary has been swift in responding to this issue of the unfortunate confusion which we have apologized which has arisen from the generation. the gentlemen referred earlier to action we had taken as a conservative government to deal with illegal immigration. can i say to the gentlemen, that i think it is absolutely right that we ensure that people who access our services and paid for by taxpayers and relied on by people living in the country have a right to do so. but we take action against people who are here i wiillegal have a right to be here and they are british. if he wants to question the issue of taking action against illegal immigration, i suspect and suggest he has a conversation with the former shadow secretary who in 2013 said, we need much stronger action from government to bring illegal immigration down. >> jeremy corbyn. >> there speaker, this is not about that, it is about commonwealth citizens wh

a few minutes later, around the corner, the home office, a bedraggled collection of rather damp reportersw minutes after that, well, he drives straight past them. but, once inside his new office, his first public reflections on his newjob. the most urgent task i have is to help those british citizens that came from the caribbean, the so—called windrush generation, and make sure that they are all treated with the decency and fairness that they deserve. i think that is what people want to see and it will be my most urgent task. amber rudd had weathered a fortnight of increasingly awkward questions about the windrush saga, but it was this moment last wednesday about deporting illegal immigrants that really put the skids under her. targets for removals, when were they set? we don't have targets for removals. the thing is, there were, and that wasn't the end of it. more paperwork from inside the home office was to emerge, too. this morning, her predecessor and boss pointedly defended having targets. when i was home secretary, yes, there were targets, in terms of removing people from the countr

cabinet minister, i've had the privilege of working alongside him and i think his appointment to the home officewe have appointed a great individual to become home secretary but it is also another glass ceiling that has been shattered. this definitely does touch him personally and i saw that in his work around integration where he talked about his mother's experience. so what i hope is that he brings that experience to bear on the job and initiates change. i think partly because of his background he has a license here to challenge. he can speak on these issues in a way that very few other members of that cabinet table can. baroness warsi and chuka umunna believe that sajid javid must deliver real change if he is to exploit his opportunity. i think there are a number of changes that we can introduce into our immigration system and this is the moment to do it. first of all, let's deal with the windrush tragedy, properly compensate these individuals, quickly compensate these individuals, and ensure their right to remain in the uk is regularised. it is time to move away from the obsession with numbe

more pressure on the government following this revelation at home office records were destroyed. ment hoped yesterday they had managed to dampen this down with apologies from theresa may and other ministers. today it has burst into life again after labour called for the home secretary amber rudd in effect to walk the plank for failing to ta ke effect to walk the plank for failing to take responsibility for our department's conduct of this whole windrush sager, sparked in part by the latest closures that the landing cards given to families arriving have been destroyed. they were a p pa re ntly have been destroyed. they were apparently stored in the basement of apparently stored in the basement of a home office building in croydon in sacks and were destroyed. for many of those individuals caught up in this whole row, they are viewed as crucial bits of evidence which have now simply been destroyed. they're now simply been destroyed. they're no longer available. the office say there were never definitive bits of evidence but certainly significant pieces of evidence proving your right

will you be able to get a grip on the home office? the prime minister appoints sajid javid as the new home secretary following the resignation of amber rudd. she stepped down last night — saying she'd inadvertently misled mps over targets for the deportation of illegal immigrants. the eu's brexit negotiator is in ireland for visits on both sides of the border — amid dup claims that he's not "an honest broker". more than 20 people have been killed and dozens injured, in two explosions in the afghan capital, kabul. also this hour — a group of central american migrants who've angered president trump as they made their way through mexico, have reached the us border. president trump has been making it clear that he regards this caravan of migrants as a threat, as a serious problem for the united states. and more than a month's rain forecast in one day — distinctly unseasonal weather hits parts of southern and eastern england. good morning. it is monday the 30th of april. welcome to bbc newsroom live. in the last hour, the prime minister has

i think it is the thin end of the wage in terms of how the home office deals with immigration.filled with people in desperate situations. it is a classic case of policy over people and the home secretary has accepted that but seeing a tit—for—tat about who did what and maria was saying that the prime minister came and was calm but she was also callous and we had ian blackford raising the rate floors with the prime minister and she was fumbling over how answers and the comments that esther mcvey made earlier this week about the rape clause in the scottish parliament we re clause in the scottish parliament were absolutely abhorrent and 5:30pm tomorrow at the mound in edinburgh there will be a demo against that andl there will be a demo against that and i hope as many people will turn up and i hope as many people will turn up in scotland to show that this government's policies, whether it is immigration or welfare or the two child cap or the rape clause has no place in scotland or in the uk. whatever the causes of this, how far has this damage the british reputation and how far do

the home office. no. the home office have been in contact with mr. thompson's representatives. i want to make, first of all, i want to make one point very clear, that no urgent treatment should be withheld by the nnhs. i also want to make clear that as it happen, mr. thompson is not part of the windross generation i have just spoken about in answer to the first question and finally, soluticols have been looking at his case and he will be receiving the treatment he needs. >> mr. speaker on the 20th of march, the prime minister wrote the me stating while i sympathize with mr. thompson, we encourage him to make the appropriate application and provide evidence of his settled status here. yesterday, we learned that in 2010, the home office destroyed landing cards for a generation of commonwealth citizens and so have told people we can't find you in our system. did the prime minister, the then home secretary, sign off that decision? >> prime minister. >> no. the decision to destroy the landing was taken in 2009 under a later governance -- [shouting] >> mr. speaker. all the evidence -

the bbc understands the home office will scrap immigration removal targets, just a day after home secretary amber rudd said they didn't exist. president trump will come to the uk injuly. the white house says it is a working visit. after two decades of decline, violent crime rose by more than 20% in england and wales last year. and on newsnight, how damaged is the home secretary, amber road, by the windrush scandal? can she blamed her predecessor when that is the prime minister —— amber rudd. good evening and welcome to bbc news. one of american television's biggest stars, the comedian bill cosby, has been convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman. the 80—year—old is best known for starring in the 1980s tv series the cosby show. he was the first major black actor on prime time, and was held in huge affection by audiences. his conviction today follows allegations against him of sexual offences by some 60 women, stretching back decades. aleem maqbool reports. he was an icon, one of the most—watched men on television. he came to court today defiant, confident he would walk free. he

the home office has been burdened for yea rs home office has been burdened for years with a record ofly. in a years with a record of handling a tough job badly. in a week in the problems mass migration that we have been facing, our system is not fit for purpose. and the migration policy challenges keep stacking up. sajid javid may stick to miserable's pledged to keep net annual migration below 100,000, but some are pressuring to keep students out of the total. the biggest pressure is following a post—brexit migration policy, firm enough to satisfy public demand for controls, but still eu friendly. anything could go wrong, and often does. you go to bed at night thinking everything is reasonably under control, but you wa ke reasonably under control, but you wake up in the morning hearing yourself being denounced on the today programme for some event that you've never heard of, because it is capable of bringing a scandal.l tough brief at the best of time. throw in brexit, the need to satisfy the public and parliament on migration, to show more compassion and handle the next crisis. crise

today at 5: the bbc understands the home office will scrap immigration removal targets. a day after the home secretary amber rudd said the targets did not exist, she's had to admit they do, and she's facing calls to stand down. i have never agreed that there should be specific removal targets and i would never support a policy that puts targets ahead of people. that gives you no confidence whatsoever because they start off saying there aren't targets, then they go on to say that they are fully in charge of the situation, then go on to say they didn't even know what was going on. i'll be talking to yvette cooper, the chair of the home affairs select committee. the other main stories on bbc news at 5: the home of english football, wembley stadium, could be sold. the football association receives an offer worth £800 million. it's been confirmed, president trump will visit the uk thisjuly. returning the favour — prince harry asks his brother, prince william, to be best man at his wedding to meghan markle. just how much are we eating? most adults in the uk are overweight or ob

and you know, as i say, these crises come quite often in the home office, and i think it is a measurel home secretary she was that none of them caused her serious trouble. but isn't that the point? you call her an effective home secretary, but this was all going on while theresa may, now the pm, was the home secretary. i mean, this whole windrush saga goes to the heart of what she called the perception of nasty party, doesn't it? most people agree with theresa may when she says that we should bear down, in a firm but fair way, on illegal immigration. the problem with this is that windrush was nothing to do with that, and it has got caught up in that, and it undermines values which britain has stood for all around the world, which we are respected for. and it is that that windrush has done such terrible damage to. if you listen to someone like david lammy, who i thought in the house of commons, notwithstanding what he said about tory ministers, but what he said about the scandal of windrush and its effect on britain, i thought he was absolutely right. she also seems to inadvertently ma

the bbc understands the home office will scrap immigration removal targets, just a day after home secretarydidn't exist. president trump will come to the uk injuly. the white house says it is a working visit. after two decades of decline, violent crime rose by more than 20% in england and wales last year. and on newsnight, how

isn't the truth, isn't the truth mr speaker that under her the home office became heartless and helplesss that theresa may? good morning. this home secretary has to do with an accidental mass, the overall crackdown under the former home secretary was entirely deliberate. we want to ensure only legal migrants have access to the labour market, free health services, housing, bank accounts and driving licences. this is notjust about making the uk are more hostile place for illegal immigrants, it is also about fairness. the intense push by the government had eyebrow raising tactics. but ministers believed the home office had hefty public support. if you haven't got the right paperwork basically you are a bad guy and have a culture of disbelief and the absolute and commitments is 2010 has been to cut immigration and drive as many as they can out of the country. it is not cultural assumption that has driven many of the problems we seen around the windrush generation. consequences that were not intended but not random either. anxiety for thousands of people for whom britain was and is a place ca

unfortunately it is credible because the home office is credible because the home office is that kindf department, it is difficult for any home secretary to be fully across what is happening in

the home office said it was looking at 49 cases as a result of calls over the course of tuesday.arlier, the prime minister theresa may apologised over the deportation threats to children of commonwealth citizens. our correspondent adina campbell has more. that was the first day that he started school... paulette wilson, another descendant of the windrush generation who arrived into the uk as a child from jamaica. despite living here for more than 50 years, she was held in a detention centre for not having the right paperwork. when i saw the "illegal" paper, ijust didn't understand it, and i kept it away from my daughter for about two weeks. i was just walking around in a daze, thinking, "why am i illegal?" it's just upsetting to think that an ordinary person like me could go through something like that. i'm still going through hell at the moment. archive: in jamaica they couldn't find work, but full of hope they sailed for britain... the treatment of long—term immigrants from commonwealth countries now living in the uk has become the focus of international political debate. it ha

an internal home office memo stated that her hostile environment policies could make it harder for people like that when drop generation to find homes and in its own words provoke discrimination why did the home secretary ignore that memo. the right honorable gentlemen talked about that environment. we are trying to create a much more hostile environment if you're here they sit on the front bench what i'm talking about a people who came here completely legally. the prime minister herself was warned. is now the shadow home secretary. directly about these policies in 2014. and when they were going to parliament then community secretary wrote to her warning the constant risks considerably outweigh the benefits. as well as the request for my honorable friends. in relation to the when drop generation. we have made absolutely clear that those people who came here from the commonwealth they are british they are part of us. they were not documented with that right. and that's what we are now putting right. he talks about actions and that the government has taken in relation to those who are here

office. in the last half an hour or so a series of tweets from the home secretary in which she says she didn'tnowledge as it was copied into her office. she said again she wasn't aware of those targets but accepts she should have been and apologised again. she says she will be making a statement on monday to the house of commons, adding, i will work to ensure our immigration policy is fair and humane. it seems she's staying in herjob. perhaps humane. it seems she's staying in her job. perhaps part humane. it seems she's staying in herjob. perhaps part of the reason is any resignation could be very destabilising to the government. and could leave theresa may, the previous home secretary, vulnerable to criticism. why amber rudd doesn't appear to be going anywhere tonight, i don't think the pressure on her shows any sign of letting up. the economy grew at its slowest pace since 2012, in the first three months of this year. figures from the office for national statistics show it grew by 0.1 % — less tha n ma ny a nalysts had predicted. bad weather and the beast from the east had some impact, but e

sajid javid has spent his first day at the home office, replacing amber rudd, who resigned as home secretaryast night over her handling of immigration policy. mrjavid said his most urgent task was to ensure that caribbean migrants, members of the so—called windrush generation, were treated with fairness and decency. mrjavid, whose parents came to britain from pakistan in the 1960s, said he was personally committed to helping those who had been mistreated. our political editor laura kuenssberg reports on the day's events. 8:30am — off to work. but where's the office? good morning. half an hour later, at 9:00am, sajid javid took the call that gave the answer. the new home secretary. will you be able to get a grip on the home office? with orders from number ten for one of the biggestjobs, with some of the most brutal pressure. but it is a messy takeover for this former banker—turned—politician. sorting out the windrush fiasco — top of the list. like the caribbean windrush generation, my parents came to this country from the commonwealth in the 1960s. so, when i heard that people who were long—s

and they constantly said we will have to contact the home office. e uk. they have made me feel like an outcast. thank you very much, lisa. thank you for your company today, bbc newsroom live is next, have a good day we are back tomorrow at nine a:m.. mist and fog developing particular in the irish sea coasts. through friday, in a mist and fog on land for ten to burn away and fog many of us, it's a dry and sunny day, a few showers in northern areas but towards the south, temperatures are still up to about 27 celsius. bye— bye. this is bbc news. i'm ben brown, live at buckingham palace. the headlines at 11: dignitaries from around the globe gather for the commonwealth heads of government meeting, where theresa may paid tribute to the queen. we committed to sustaining this commonwealth, which you have so carefully nurtured. for your showers, for your dedication, for your constancy, we thank you. a 53—gun salute is being held in near—by green park to mark the meeting. i'll have all the latest from central london throughout the day.

and on monday, the home secretary told the house i'm concerned the home office has become too concerned with policy and strategy and sometimes the site of the individual. who does the prime minister think is to blame for this? the current home secretary or her producers -- her predecessor? >> prime minister? >> it touches people's lives every day in a variety of ways. right honorable friend, the home secretary, has been swift in respond during -- in responding to which we have apologized. the right honorable gentleman referred earlier to action we have taken as a conservative government to deal with an eagle -- with illegal immigration. can i say to the right honorable gentlemen that i think it's absolutely right that we ensure that people who access our services that are paid for by taxpayers, that are relied on people living in this country have a right to do so but we take action against people who are here illegally. the when jeff generation are here -- of the windruff generation are here legally. they have a right to be here. if he wants to question the issue of taking action again

amber rudd took up home office, before amber rudd took up her position there?our has suggested in recent days that amber rudd was somehow protect in her as a human shield. but of course was denied by the government but now, amber rudd has gone from thatjob, it may well be that the opposition party tries to point the criticism over this whole issue more pointedly at the prime minister herself. that is laura kuenssberg, our political editor, giving us the analysis on the resignation of amber rudd. so much more detail on that story at six o'clock on breakfast. this is the briefing from bbc news. the latest headlines: the british home secretary amber rudd has resigned after weeks of pressure over the government's treatment of long—term migrants from the caribbean. protesters have been showing their support for armenia's main opposition leader, days before a new prime minister will be chosen. china's foreign minister, wang yi, is to visit north korea this week, following the landmark summit between the leaders of north and south koreas on friday. the world's largest

she is not quite admitting that she did know that the home office had targets. because she is not home secretary any more so does not matter. but she plainly... she says she inadvertently misled. plainly... she says she inadvertently misledlj plainly... she says she inadvertently misled. i think it was inadvertently misled. i think it was inadvertent in that she plainly misspoke. she thought she was talk about a different sort of target. she did not make is clear. she managed to make things worse with every subsequent statement. and she was going to have given a statement tomorrow in the house and she must have thought about it and thought about it and thought no. i can't do it. the statement is to come tonight and be of a different order. she would have had a very rough time in the commons tomorrow. let us look at the commons tomorrow. let us look at the other future she is going to have tomorrow and for the days thereafter on the backbenches. what will that look like? well, she is going to be one of the significant players, i suspect, going to be one of the sig

speaker four years ago, an , internal home office memo her "hostile environment" policies could make it harder for people like the windrush generation to find homes and in its own word "provoke , discrimination". why did the home secretary ignore that memo? >> the right honorable gentleman talks about a "hostile environment". what we are proposing here will, i think, flush illegal migrants out. we are trying to create a much more hostile environment in this country if you are here illegally. those are not my words. they are the words of the right honourable member for birmingham, hodge hill when he was labour's immigration minister. the labour leader ought to know about this because the right honourable gentleman sits on his front bench. >> jeremy corbyn. >> speaker, what i am talking about is the windrush generation of people who came here completely legally. the prime minister herself was warned by my friend the member , for hackney north and stoke newington who is now the shadow , home secretary. and when the act was going through parliament the then , communities secretary, eric p

at the moment you see chaos around the home office. thank you very much indeed.t as if they were friends, rather than sworn enemies. the pictures of the unpredictable and hostile dictator kim jong—un joking with and embracing the south korean president moon jae—in today were almost as unexpected as the announcement that both leaders would work with the united states and china this year to declare an official end to the korean war. at one point apparently kim joked that north korea's early morning missile launches had likely awakened moon numerous times and promised not to do it any more. unprecedented symbolism of peace, for sure. but is the promise to work towards the complete denuclearisation of the korean peninsula to be believed? here's our diplomatic editor, mark urban. it was a day freighted with symbolism, starting with a step across korea's ceasefire line. kim jong—un, became the first north korean leader to visit the south. and with his arrival came the prospect of an end to the peninsula's war psychosis and sabre rattling. what we saw today was the two

the home office say these cards though important are not a definitive piece of evidence and they say l these cards, which were stored in a basement of their office in croydon, after they moved office to comply with data privacy rules. you are only allowed to keep information about people for a certain number of yea rs. about people for a certain number of years. these records, many go back to the 60s and 70s said the government under renewed pressure from labour but also under pressure in europe, where eu leaders are very concerned about what the wind rush to buckle might mean for the registering of the 3 million eu nationals living in the uk. have a listen to the leading mep guy verhofstadt this morning. even with the withdrawal agreement now, things are not over. we need still to have the citizens' rights completed, because certainly after the windrush scandal in britain, we want to be sure that the same is not happening to our european citizens, and that there is no bureaucratic nightmare there. we will organise that the president with the home office next weeka president with the

according to the home office, nhs workers already ta ke home office, nhs workers already take up aroundre never refused for roles like nursing, where there is a recognised shortage. but thosejobs nursing, where there is a recognised shortage. but those jobs still count towards a monthly migrant count —— cap, and nhs managers want them taken out. there are important areas of the economy like the health service, like social care, where we are in shortage, and what we are proposing is that these posts are dealt with separately from the cap. meanwhile health service bosses said they are horrified and bewildered they are horrified and bewildered the home office is obstructing them from accessing a skilled workforce that could help with a recognised shortage of dock is. —— doctors. a man's been sent to prison for nine years for causing the deaths by dangerous driving of two young brothers in a hit—and—run collision. corey and casper platt—may, who were six and two, were on their way to the park with their mother when they were knocked down in coventry in february. warwick crown court heard th

truth, isn't the truth mr speaker that under herthe isn't the truth mr speaker that under her the home officeheartless and helpless? was that theresa may? good morning. this home secretary has to do with an accidental mass, the overall crackdown under the former home secretary was entirely deliberate. we wa nt secretary was entirely deliberate. we want to ensure only legal migrants have access to the labour market, free health services, housing, bank accounts and driving licences. this is notjust about making the uk are more hostile place for illegal immigrants, it is also about fairness. the intense push by the government had eyebrow raising tactics. but ministers believed the home office had hefty public support. if you haven't got the right paperwork basically you are a bad guy and have a culture of disbelief and the absolute and commitments is 2010 has been to cut immigration and drive as many as they can out of the country. it is not cultural assumption that has driven many of the problems we seen around the windrush generation. consequences that were not intended but not random either.

let me just point something out, in exchanges today it was very clear that basically the home officend the default position is potentially everyone is illegal and that is what created the hostile environment. that is creating the problem is that a lot of people who are actually seeking legal status who are perfectly legal to be here because they can't prove the documentation isn't there, no one has asked the decades. you could go somewhere and present a gas bill in order to show who you are. suddenly, everything is tightened up and everybody suddenly has to show documentation... on the specific idea of an amnesty comedy sport at? i deathly figured something we should consider, seeing everything has gone. and facing the problem that we have for eu migrants, creating a generous environment that isn't hostile and accept the eu citizens who here should be here and have that status immediately, without them going through very hostile processes. let's be clear though it was the liberal democrats who are in government with the conservatives when these measures came ends they also need to ta

clearly from your point of view there are some details that have been overlooked, do you feel the home officen to the concerns of people like yourself, if the debate is now wide open? the home secretary has signalled a change, that's true. but this is because we were determined to create a hostile environment, and i saw that she changed that word today in the house and talked about a compliant environment. it still sounds a bit 0rwellian, compliant is a sort of control or oppress state, ijust think we a sort of control or oppress state, i just think we have to treat people humanely, particularly people from the former empire, so there are also people tonight from places like nigeria, uganda, kenya, india, bangladesh, who also came up here as pa rt bangladesh, who also came up here as part of that generation and they too do not want this horrible status of temporary leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain, huge fees in an environment hostile to them and their children. do you accept the point the home secretary made that in a way successive governments, and this plays into your point abo

what will be going on in the home office in number ten?ment for theresa may, if she was to sack her it would trigger a whole reshuffle in the cabinet. she will go if she has had enough but clearly the home office has been a political graveyard for many cabinet ministers andi graveyard for many cabinet ministers and i always thought theresa may did well to survive in there for a long time without any scandals. also what is happening here is an absence of other news going on apart from brexit. there is not really domestic agenda and this is filling the void so agenda and this is filling the void so it will be a uncomfortable few days for her. and i guess the next flash point will be what will happen in the sunday papers. it has brought in to talk about general immigration policy and this idea that she did not know there were deportation targets, did you think it was surprising she didn't know that?” do. she is someone who from what i know of for completely, i am surprise all of this has come out. i am surprised she did not know it. it wasjun

home secretary. our political editor laura kuenssberg has more. 8:30am, afterward. but where is the office? od morning. half an hour later, at 9am, sajid javid took the call that gave the answer. the new home secretary. with orders from number ten for one of the biggestjobs with some of the most brutal pressure. but it is a messy ta keover brutal pressure. but it is a messy takeover for this brutal pressure. but it is a messy takeoverfor this former brutal pressure. but it is a messy takeover for this former banker turned politician. sorting out the windrush fiasco, top of the list. like the caribbean when restoration, my parents came to this country in the 1960s. so when i heard that people who were long—standing pillars of their communities were being impacted for simply not having the right documents to prove their legal status in the uk, i thought, it could be a mime mother, my brother, my uncle or even me. so i wa nt to brother, my uncle or even me. so i want to end by making one thing crystal clear, we will do right by the windrush generation. he is and because she is out. amber rudd's

he chaired the cabinet subcommittee which oversaw the work of the home office.ly mckenzie, one of his senior advisers, was tweeting this afternoon. a climate created by theresa may. this afternoon, i spoke to norman baker who was a liberal democrat minister in the home office. this is what he had to say to me. i do regret that went through. this is a constant tank moving forward. week after week, to try to deal with immigration. to be quite honest, you couldn't stop everything. the tank rolled on. real anger with the liberal democrats. we need to distinguish the illegal immigrants from the legal ones. in 1973, britain gave permanent rights to reside here to commonwealth immigrants who had already arrived. back then, we didn't keep a register of the names. this is not a problem that would arise in the country that has id cards but we are allergic to id cards in this country. you could look at this hell case as an example of poor government record—keeping. let's ta ke of poor government record—keeping. let's take a few minutes to watch this is meant forjunior gree

calls for her to resign over targets and what she knew or did not know about targets within the home officee latest on that, how much pressure do you think she is under? once again there is another call for her to resign from diane at that he has written a letter to the prime minister calling foran inquiry as letter to the prime minister calling for an inquiry as to whether amber rudd broke the ministerial code. downing street insists there is no need for an inquiry, says she did not mislead the commons, she was not aware of the target introduced to get rid of illegal immigrants from the uk. up is some concern, i think, this saga is doing some damage to the conservative party ahead of the local elections on thursday, a couple of interventions in the sunday papers today from the community secretary sergei javad who himself is of immigrant stock and he said this could have been me, a member of my family, that's his initial reaction when he heard about the windrush scandal but he says to voters look at our record in pudding right. —— sajid javid. i think in general have of colleagues are rally

the home office under the coalition decided to be much stricter on immigration.uk, you had to prove you were legally here. a lot of these people did not have that proof so they were then denied rights to health care, they lost their jobs, some people were deported. that is why we got to this point where the home secretary and the prime minister have been apologising in this last week. embarrassing because we have had the commonwealth heads in the country. she has had to apologise for this saga. when it comes to how this looks, of course, this whole issue of immigration and people coming into the country and want to stay, it plays into the hands of people who might be looking to criticise the brexit process. one of the key issues in the brexit negotiations with the eu at the moment is about the ec] and whether it needs to have jurisdiction over eu citizens after we leave. what she has agreed is that it would have jurisdiction over eu citizens for eight years after we leave. they are wary as to whether they would be protected. we have heard from a dutch mep today w

the bbc understands that the home office and number 10 were both told about the problems in 2016. home secretary should now resign, as our political editor, laura kuenssberg, reports. home secretary, will you resign over windrush? who knew, and when? the home secretary, number 10, everyone around here says they're sorry now. foreign secretary, is the cabinet united on immigration? but how did the windrush scandal slip the government's notice? her department is taking most of the strain. i bitterly, deeply regret that i didn't see it as more than individual cases that had gone wrong, that needed addressing. i didn't see it as a systemic issue until very recently. but what about how immigration officers behaved? were they looking for easy targets? the chair had been told... local managers, under pressure to meet those targets, would instruct staff to go looking for the easiest targets — "the low—hanging fruit". what do you say to that? i think that's extraordinary language to use. who would refer to anybody as low—hanging fruit? you know, there is nothing wrong with trying to remove