Theresa May admits mistakes over migrant policies

Mrs May’s immigration policies, introduced when she was home secretary, caused “serious injustice” for Windrush immigrants who arrived from the Caribbean in the 1950s and 1960s, the equalities watchdog previously found.

Demands to show missing documentation led to many being threatened with deportation, the Equality and Human Rights Commission said.

Mrs May told ITV she took responsibility for Home Office policies while she was home secretary from 2010 to 2016.

Discussing the Windrush scandal, she said: “Should we in the Home Office have had a greater sense of trying to identify whether there were other people, people who were going to get caught up in this way?

“I don’t believe that question was ever asked. And that’s what lay behind the problems.”