Amber Rudd's resignation as home secretary should not distract people from insisting the prime minister Theresa May answers questions about her key role in the Windrush scandal and the immigration policies that the government has pursued.
Our union has urged the prime minister to answer serious questions about the immigration policies she pursed as home secretary which have led directly to the Windrush debacle.
Following Amber Rudd’s resignation yesterday and the multiple failings of the Home Office, the PCS which is the largest union that represents workers in that department, is insisting that the prime minister must take responsibility for the hostile environment she created, the reactionary “Go Home” vans and the discriminatory treatment of staff while doing their job under difficult circumstances.
PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: “Theresa May was home secretary from 2010 to 2016. She orchestrated the shift in culture, viewing people wanting to this come to this country with suspicion and hostility. She set arbitrary targets on immigration and rolled out the hated “Go Home” vans which stalked our streets sowing division within our communities.
“This climate created a situation where people from the Windrush generation and the wider Commonwealth who were invited over here to live and work, have been treated disgracefully, denied access to basic services and in some cases, holed up in detention centres.
“Ministers have already attempted to deflect blame by pinning responsibility wrongly on Home Office staff for this crisis. Now the prime minister must come clean and take full responsibility for her part in setting this train of events in motion.”
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