Kelly Top Tories in balancing act

cy issues – bequeathed by Rudd’s predecessor at the Home Office, Theresa May.

Does Soames believe May should be carrying the can instead? I suspect not.

Anyway, May won’t go. Rudd has lasted until the time of writing at least as they are bound together like the gang at the end of the film The Italian Job – stuck in their own metaphorical coach balanced precariously over a cliff. If one moves the whole thing will crash down on to the rocks below. They’re the modern version of “the self preservation society”.

And it won’t just take May and Rudd. It could in the end take the Tory government, which is clinging on to power by its finger tips in the face of repeated incompetence and malignant policies which are unravelling in front of an increasingly horrified public. I can’t imagine many people, no matter which party they support, condoning what has happened to the Windrush generation.

While Labour has an anti-Semitic problem, it hasn’t found its way into proposed party policies. The Tory hierarchy seems to have prejudice against people deemed “not one of us” at its core.

It was only recently that Downing Street rejected a request to discuss the immigration problems being experienced by the Windrush generation at the meeting of the Commonwealth heads of government from representatives of 12 Caribbean countries, thinking it was an issue no one would be fussed about.

Today they can’t stop apologising having discovered that, while they like to play to the bigots, there are a lot of Brits who are fundamentally decent and act in proper conscience when they have the full facts to hand. Under-fire Home Secretary Amber Rudd