Home Office’s “inhuman” approach to immigration

In an interview, former Home Office immigration minister Caroline Nokes has called the her former department’s approach to immigration “inhuman”, “profoundly depressing” and at times “hideously wrong”, warning it will only cause further problems that will end up costing the taxpayer more money. Nokes accused ministers of “paying lip service” to Wendy Williams’ Lessons Learned report on the Windrush scandal – which broke while she was in office – and said they were failing to put people at the heart of Home Office policy, as was recommended in the review. Commitments to change the Home Office following the Windrush scandal had been “torn up, disregarded and rendered clearly completely irrelevant” when making decisions about asylum seekers. Read the full interview.