Amber Rudd needs to get control of the Home Office after the scandalous mistreatment of Windrush immigrants
We need to sort this out to save ourselves from any more embarrassment after Amber Rudd and Theresa May contradicted each other
Rudderless
AMBER Rudd has to start getting a grip on the Home Office.
The incompetence revealed by the scandalous treatment of Windrush immigrants is staggering.
Within hours, the Home Secretary and her Minister inexplicably contradicted each other on whether any of these Brits were wrongly deported.
Ms Rudd cannot shirk the blame. She has been in her job for nearly two years.
Her boss, the Prime Minister, was Home Secretary before that. Any failings are on the Government’s watch.
Those affected must be assured that they can stay in the country to which they have contributed so much. The Home Office has to sort out this mess.
Otherwise how can Ugandan Asians — or 3million Europeans who have been rightly told they can stay after Brexit — have any confidence in the system?
Time for calm
THE Prime Minister was right to bomb the Syrian regime after its assault on civilians.
But with that complete, it is time for Mrs May, President Trump and President Macron to offer a strategy to calm tensions between the superpowers.
Clearly no one should hide behind woolly words about “peaceful solutions” when a rogue dictator gasses children.
The refusal of the Russian and Syrian regimes to let inspectors do their work shows the absurdity of Jeremy Corbyn’s calls for an independent probe.
But there is no benefit to anybody in Moscow, London, Paris or Washington pouring more fuel on the tinderbox.
Cool heads must now prevail. It is time for real diplomacy.
Silence in court
THE CPS have again kept vital evidence about celebrity misbehaviour confidential.
At his sentencing for drink-driving yesterday, details of the case against Ant McPartlin were not revealed in court. We may never know how the TV host came to be so far over the limit.
This flies in the face of the principle of open justice.
Ant’s behaviour could have been used as a cautionary example for others.
This cover-up means there’s no chance of that happening.
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A poor tribute
MET Police boss Cressida Dick needs to step in to cool Hither Green tensions.
Bungling local cops should never have allowed a floral tribute to a burglar outside the house he raided.
It is blindingly obvious that they can’t let a deliberately provocative procession go past, either.
On public order grounds, this funeral has to be re-routed.
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