Brodie Clark quit as head of the UK Border Agency’s border force and said he would lodge a claim for constructive dismissal. Mr Clark also claimed that he had come under “pressure” from ministers to compromise security checks in order to reduce queues at airports.
His resignation and attack on Mrs May escalates the most serious immigration row the Coalition has faced. The Home Secretary is under intense pressure over a loosening of border controls that allowed an unknown number of foreign nationals – potentially including terrorists, criminals and illegal immigrants – to enter the country without full security checks.
Over the summer, she secretly authorised border staff to stop checking biometric data in the passports of European arrivals at ports and airports. She says Mr Clark then defied her clear orders and extended the policy to non-Europeans.
The Home Secretary rejected calls for her resignation yesterday and denied that her actions had led to “security breaches”. » | James Kirkup, Deputy Political Editor | Tuesday, November 08, 2011
What a cock up! Can't these politicians – right, left, or centre – understand that we, the electorate, are sick to the back teeth of all these illegal immigrants coming into this country? Further, are they so stupid that they can't seal the borders? What idiots! What highly-paid idiots they are! The damn, bloody lot of them! – © Mark
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