The Green Party has condemned news today that Theresa May tried to push the children of immigrants to the bottom of the school places list.
Jonathan Bartley, Green Party co-leader, said:
“Once again the mask has slipped on migration revealing something truly ugly at the heart of Government.
"It is deeply concerning that the person now leading our country once tried to penalise migrant children by denying equal rights to education. All children deserve a good education irrespective of the circumstances of their parents, and pushing migrant children to the back of the queue is not just unjust, it is despicable.”
Bartley added:
“Reports that chief Brexiteer Boris Johnson backs free movement are baffling, given the divisive role he played in the referendum campaign. But, along with suggestions that our overstretched teachers, doctors and nurses should become a second border force, suggest that increasingly migrants are being used a pawns in a political game at the heart of Government.
“Our Government should be so much better than this.”