‘If you create a hostile environment, you shouldn’t be surprised that it’s hostile’

It was the coalition government that pushed a policy of outsourcing immigration enforcement that became a licence to discriminateThere was stunned silence in the cabinet room. Ministers exchanged awkward glances. Officials looked at their shoes. Had the prime minister really just stormed out?It was May 2013 and a red-faced David Cameron had suddenly packed up his briefing folder and left, with a full agenda far from complete. It brought an abrupt end to the gathering known as the inter-ministeri