Quote of the day

Rawnsley in The Observer:

As I write, Amber Rudd and home secretary can still be put in the same sentence without it including the word former. Her non-resignation from the cabinet, despite a mammoth scandal perpetrated by the major department for which she is responsible, tells us something about this government, something about its opponents and more about shifting standards in public life. None of the things it tells us is good.

The suffering inflicted on “the Windrush generation” has been abominable. I struggle to recall an example in modern times of a British government treating such a large group of its citizens so atrociously. It takes a particularly noxious combination of incompetence and inhumanity to tell people who have been living in Britain entirely legally and for many decades that they are going to be thrown out.

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What we haven’t seen is the only penance that really means anything with politicians. There have been no resignations. Lives have been wrecked; Westminster careers sail on. Ms Rudd’s reputation has taken a battering, but she is still in her ministerial suite, still cruising around in her government limo and still drawing her cabinet salary.

Worth reading the whole thing here

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