Amber Rudd was sent migrant removal targets, leak reveals

The memo referred to promises made to Amber Rudd to increase the number of enforced returns of migrants by 10%.Amber Rudd’s insistence that she knew nothing of Home Office targets for immigration removals risks unravelling following the leak of a secret internal document prepared for her and other senior ministers.The six-page memo, passed to the Guardian, says the department has set “a target of achieving 12,800 enforced returns in 2017-18” and boasts that “we have excee