Windrush: senior Tories defend Amber Rudd in memo row

Amber Rudd has been called to give evidence to the Commons home affairs committee.Senior ministers have rallied round beleaguered Amber Rudd after she admitted she should have known about official targets for removing illegal immigrants.The home secretary did not see the internal Home Office memo that boasted of exceeding the department’s target for immigration removals, Michael Gove has claimed, as he suggested that Labour had “weaponised” the Windrush scandal to distract from