Few people know this, it seems, but during Theresa May’s time at the helm in the Home Office she wrongly deported 48,000 students. A year earlier, she had said: “We can deport first and hear appeals later.”
Like much of her tenure – as well as that of the home secretaries who followed her, Amber Rudd and Sajid Javid – the British public seem to have all but forgotten it.
Give us five years and perhaps we will have forgotten, too, that Boris Johnson was largely responsible for the continued imprisonment in Tehran of British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. Rumours abound that she is going to run for his seat in the next election.
