| Author (Person) | Negrier-Pascaud, Mathilde |
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| Publisher | Cardiff EDC |
| Series Details | April 2018 |
| Publication Date | 30/04/2018 |
| Content Type | News |
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Further information: Britain’s interior minister resigned on April 29 after Prime Minister Theresa May’s government faced an outpouring of indignation over its treatment of some long-term Caribbean residents who were wrongly labelled illegal immigrants. For two weeks, British ministers have been struggling to explain why some descendants of the so-called “Windrush generation”, invited to Britain to plug labour shortfalls between 1948 and 1971, had been denied basic rights. The final straw came from an article published on Sunday by the Guardian newspaper, which reported a letter from Rudd to May last year in which she stated an “ambitious but deliverable” aim for an increase in the enforced deportation of immigrants. Rudd had been due to make another appearance before parliament on the 30th, but instead opted to resign on the 29th. In her resignation letter to May, Amber Rudd said she had inadvertently misled a parliamentary committee last Wednesday by denying the government had targets for the deportation of illegal migrants. May accepted her resignation. Rudd’s decision to step down will come as a severe setback for the Conservative leader, who publicly declared her “full confidence” in Rudd as recently as Friday April 27, and faces potentially bruising local council elections across England on Thursday. The loss of one of May’s closest allies is a blow as she navigates the final year of negotiations ahead of Britain’s exit from the European Union in March 2019. It also deprives the cabinet of one of its most outspoken pro-European members. The Windrush scandal has raised questions about May’s six-year stint as interior minister before she became prime minister in the wake of the 2016 Brexit referendum. |
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