Windrush row

Home Secretary Amber Rudd first claimed there were no targets regarding deporting immigrants, then she claimed there were only local targets, now we find she was wrong – she had been emailed a memo re national targets.

When a minister makes claims that her department is innocent, the claim should be based on forensic assessment –yet twice she failed to give the country a reliable answer. Even if she has some claim to be a recently- appointed minister, surely her predecessor can offer no such defence.

Michael Gove disingenuously claims Labour is weaponising Windrush to take the pressure off its anti- Semitic behaviour.

As one who had been angry about anti-Semitism, I can nevertheless state that there is no comparison between Jeremy Corbyn’s blunders over t he antagonism and stereo - typing which some in the part y have been accused of and the wholesale ruining of lives which this present government can no longer deny had been the effect of its policies towards immigrants.

If our construction industry, NHS and farming continue to have problems finding foreign skilled workers and the UK goes quickly back into recession, people will recall that government excuses for the incompetence of key ministers wore a bit thin.

ANDREW VASS Corbiehill Place, Edinburgh