• Monday, April 29, 2024

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Sajid Javid is new UK home secretary

Sajid Javid is expected to make a statement on the English test scandal before parliament’s summer recess.

By: Sarwar Alam

BRITISH Asian SAJID Javid was named this morning (30) as Britain’s new home secretary after Amber Rudd resigned from that post, having “inadvertently misled” parliament about deportation targets for illegal immigrants. Prime minister Theresa May’s Downing Street office announced the appointment in a statement. Javid was previously Britain’s communities minister. May’s spokesman said Javid had “shown drive, ambition and determination to get to grips with difficult subjects”. May appointed of Javid is seen as a way to try to draw a line under an immigration scandal that has threatened the prime minister’s authority. Javid said on Monday his most urgent…

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