Michael Gove defends Amber Rudd over internal Home Office memo about removal targetsThe home secretary did not see the internal Home Office memo that boasted of exceeding the department’s target for immigration removals, Michael Gove has claimed, as he suggested that Labour had “weaponised” the Windrush scandal to distract from its own row over antisemitism. The environment secretary, speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Saturday, said Amber Rudd did not receive the document despite it having been copied to her and Brandon Lewis, then immigration minister, and several civil servants and political aides. Continue reading…
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