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NS#265: Hostile Environment

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🗓️ 19 April 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Helen and Stephen discuss the immigration controversy now surrounding the handling of the Windrush generation and analyse what Theresa May's "hostile environment" policy could mean for her politically. Then contributing editor Mehdi Hasan joins from Washington DC to talk about Donald Trump's extraordinary run of outrageous scandals. Finally, they tackle a listener question: how did the Lib Dems vote on immigration during the coalition government?

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Listen to eight years hard labour wherever you get your podcasts. Hello I'm Helen and I'm Stephen and welcome to the New Statesman podcast it's a hostile environment here we're talking about the wind rush

1:08.2

generation and PMQs. So Stephen you've returned fresh from the House of Commons in which the two debating

1:20.8

champions Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn have been slucking it out over the week's big

1:25.2

route. Just to recap, and correct me if I'm wrong, because this is what you've written your column

1:29.3

on this week. A generation of people who are now, you say most of them either at retirement age or around retirement age,

1:36.0

who came over from the Caribbean predominantly as children on the Empire Windrushorship.

1:41.0

They had landing cars when they got here here and they were at the time British subjects.

1:46.1

So there is a 1971 act that says they've got permanent leave to remain and live in Britain.

1:51.0

Nonetheless, because of the hostile environment policy brought

1:54.0

in by Theresa May at the Home Office, far more services have been asking people for

1:57.7

their immigration records and their proof of entitlement to live in the country,

2:00.9

and some of these people have not been able to find that

2:03.2

and have their board for been facing deportation facing not being able to use

2:06.5

NHS services yeah so the hostile environment came in in a kind of watered down kind of to get past George Osworn at the Treasury and the

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