Windrush

Johnny Mercer Excerpts
Monday 30th April 2018

(6 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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I can tell the hon. Lady that I am not aware of any such information, but I will take a close look.

Johnny Mercer Portrait Johnny Mercer (Plymouth, Moor View) (Con)
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The Windrush scandal is appalling—there is no doubt about it—but there seems to have been some wilful conflation here, not helped by the crashing irony of the shadow Home Secretary talking about my right hon. Friend the Member for Hastings and Rye (Amber Rudd) not being on top of her brief. Will the Home Secretary outline to me and others in Plymouth what exactly is wrong with a compliant policy—I know he does not like the word “hostile”—on illegal immigration, which is what we want to see from this Government?