Amber Rudd was sent targets for migrant removal, leak reveals

Exclusive: Secret memo undermines home secretary’s claim she was unaware of targets
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 exceeded our target of as