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Amber Rudd resigns, the anti-migrant machine works on

Hardline policies have failed in their stated aim of reducing immigration. Is their true purpose to impress particular voters?

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Home Secretary Amber Rudd 12 April 2018
Home Secretary Amber Rudd 12 April 2018

Amber Rudd 17 days before her resignation as Home Secretary. Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire/PA Images. All rights reserved.

The Windrush scandal and Amber Rudd’s failures have dominated headlines, but Theresa May’s anti-migrant “hostile environment” policies have been causing misery for years. 

It was in 2012 that May, then Home Secretary, made public her plan to make Britain a “hostile environment” for people who have “no right to be here”.