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| Theresa May has defended the government’s response to the Windrush scandal and insisted the public supported tough action on immigration. | Theresa May has defended the government’s response to the Windrush scandal and insisted the public supported tough action on immigration. |
| In what will be seen as a slap-down of her new home secretary, Sajid Javid, the prime minister, who has been blamed for the so-called “hostile environment” policy that contributed to the scandal, refused to back plans to scrap it. | In what will be seen as a slap-down of her new home secretary, Sajid Javid, the prime minister, who has been blamed for the so-called “hostile environment” policy that contributed to the scandal, refused to back plans to scrap it. |
| May said action was being taken to make sure that no one was “mistakenly” affected by the immigration policy. | May said action was being taken to make sure that no one was “mistakenly” affected by the immigration policy. |
| “If you talk to members of the public, what they want to know is to ensure that we are dealing with people who come to the UK illegally,” she said in Quebec, Canada, where she was attending the G7 summit. | “If you talk to members of the public, what they want to know is to ensure that we are dealing with people who come to the UK illegally,” she said in Quebec, Canada, where she was attending the G7 summit. |
| Asked if she was planning any changes as a result of the Windrush row, May said: “I think what we need to do is to ensure that we are able to deal with those people who are in the UK illegally, but ensuring that people who are in the UK legally do not find themselves, as the Windrush generation did, mistakenly caught up in that. | Asked if she was planning any changes as a result of the Windrush row, May said: “I think what we need to do is to ensure that we are able to deal with those people who are in the UK illegally, but ensuring that people who are in the UK legally do not find themselves, as the Windrush generation did, mistakenly caught up in that. |
| “That’s why the Home Office is looking to work with those who are of the Windrush generation to make sure they do have, where they need it – many of them do have the documentation already but they don’t get that documentation easily. That’s why we have ensured that offer of British citizenship is open to them.” | “That’s why the Home Office is looking to work with those who are of the Windrush generation to make sure they do have, where they need it – many of them do have the documentation already but they don’t get that documentation easily. That’s why we have ensured that offer of British citizenship is open to them.” |
| Pressed again on whether changes were necessary, she said: “We need to ensure that we keep measures in place that enable us to deal with those people who come to the UK illegally. | Pressed again on whether changes were necessary, she said: “We need to ensure that we keep measures in place that enable us to deal with those people who come to the UK illegally. |
| “What we do need to ensure is that, as we are applying those measures, we don’t see people inadvertently caught up in that who are British and have the legal right to be in the UK.” | “What we do need to ensure is that, as we are applying those measures, we don’t see people inadvertently caught up in that who are British and have the legal right to be in the UK.” |
| Javid has threatened to move away from May’s immigration policy and refused to give his full backing for the prime minister’s pledge to reduce annual net migration to “tens of thousands”. | Javid has threatened to move away from May’s immigration policy and refused to give his full backing for the prime minister’s pledge to reduce annual net migration to “tens of thousands”. |
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