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Caroline Nokes’ bad day

Oh to be a fly-in-the-wall at the Home Office today. The government department appears to be in a state of meltdown as Amber Rudd and her ministers attempt some damage limitation after it was revealed that a request by Commonwealth leaders to discuss the cases of the Windrush generation experiencing immigration issues with the Prime Minister had been turned down.

In an interview with ITV news, Caroline Nokes – the Home Office minister – admitted to ‘terrible mistakes’ – suggesting that things were so bad that some Windrush immigrants may have even been wrongly deported:

She’s changed her tune from yesterday…

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