Home Secretary hounded

AMBER RUDD was not the best Home Secretary we have had. Her failings were many, her achievements few. But she was not responsible for the Windrush debacle.

all governments from Clement atlee onwards bear responsibility for failing to ensure that the residential status of Commonwealth citizens invited to work and settle here was properly recorded.

rather than hound amber rudd for deficiencies all are guilty of, it would have been better if Jeremy Corbyn had the heart and courage to apologise on behalf of previous Labour administrations for their contribution to the fiasco.

ALBERT ROY, London E3.

WHAT a tragedy to lose such a wellrespected member of the Cabinet over a memory lapse.

The Windrush situation needs someone calm and structured to sort out the genuine cases who have been wronged, and amber rudd fitted that description.

It is impossible for any Cabinet minister to remember every single letter, email or text sent to them.

KEITH JACQUES, Stafford.

AMBER rudd falls on her sword. Will there now be mea culpa admissions among the highly paid civil servants whose jobs it was to inform and advise her? Thought not.

A. BAILEY, Dover, Kent.

IT IS normal management practice to have performance targets related to employees’ pay increases. The issue at the Home Office when it came to immigration was that like all woolly performance targets, the managers targeted the easy options — law-abiding citizens who did not know how to play the system.

PETER BELCHER, Barton-le-Clay, Beds.