It’s now six months since the Windrush debacle that ended Amber Rudd’s career – but does Theresa May recognise what went wrong? Andrew Marr sought to find out this morning, saying that a general apology was not enough: ‘There are apologies which say: “I’m sorry something bad happened”, and then there are apologies which say: “Do you know what? My policy – my policy – made these bad things happen, and my policy was wrong and I’m sorry for it.”’ So which was May’s? Here’s what she said:-
‘The point of the policy was to ensure that those people who were here in the United Kingdom illegally were identified, and that appropriate action was taken. What went wrong was that people from the Windrush generation, who were here legally, who had every right to be here, who had helped to build our great national institutions, found themselves unable to show that true documentation and got caught up in that.’
So she says the problem was that they didn’t have documentation.
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