Theresa May has claimed the decision to destroy the landing cards of Windrush-generation was taken by a Labour government.
Responding to Jeremy Corbyn during a heated Prime Minister’s Questions exchange, the Prime Minister made her remarks amid mounting pressure on the government over its treatment of those who immigrated to Britain from the Caribbean in the mid-twentieth century.
Speaking in the Commons, Mr Corbyn said: “Yesterday we learned in 2010 the Home Office destroyed the landing cards for a generation of Commonwealth citizens, so have told people ‘we can’t find you in our system’.
“Did the Prime Minister, the then-Home Secretary, sign off that decision?”
But Ms May replied: “No, the decision to destroy the landing cards was taken in 2009 under a Labour government.”
Ms May and Amber Rudd, the home secretary, have already apologised for the scandal, but Diane Abbott, Labour’s shadow home secretary, this morning called for Ms Rudd to resign.
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