Isabel Hardman Isabel Hardman

The Maybot returns at PMQs

Today’s Prime Minister’s Questions saw the Maybot reactivated. Jeremy Corbyn decided to lead the session on the fallout from the Windrush row, widening out his questions to the flaws in the hostile environment policy on illegal immigration, and on who was to blame for these flaws being apparent but not fixed for so long.

The exchanges very swiftly became a ding-dong between May and Corbyn as to whose fault the creation of a hostile environment policy actually was. Corbyn wanted to pin the policy on May, but also demanded that Amber Rudd resign for aiming to harden the policy. His questions were decent, but it was May herself who created the Labour win today, as her answers were terrible. She robotically chanted in answer to a number of questions that ‘the Windrush generation are British’, before insisting that the hostile environment policy was only for illegal immigrants.

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