The shadow home secretary was repeatedly asked about Labour's position on the deportation of illegal immigrants by Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan.

Diane Abbott did not back an amnesty, and added it was "not Labour's position" that up to a million illegal immigrants should be made to leave the UK.

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Dominic Casciani
Home Affairs Correspondent

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The new Home Secretary Sajid Javid faces a massive task. And none of it - from terrorism through to the Windrush crisis - is easy to fix.

The Home Office sits at the heart of some of the most complex and challenging decisions in government - and, if his predecessors' experiences are any guide, Mr Javid should probably give up now on the hope of having much of a life beyond his red ministerial boxes.

I'll come back to immigration in a moment, but first on the list for any incoming home secretary is appreciating the scale of the security threat.

Every day, he will see a dozen dossiers from the police and intelligence agencies asking for permission to intercept the communications of people who are a threat to the UK. There are regular top secret security briefings on the latest possible terror plot. This is his first responsibility: keeping the UK safe.

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Theresa May has said that Amber Rudd "can look back with pride on her time as home secretary."

The prime minister also said that there were targets during her time as home secretary, but they were aimed at people who were in the UK illegally.

Labour's shadow home secretary Diane Abbott will ask the Home Office to make a statement on the government's handling of the Windrush scandal this afternoon in the House of Commons.

It is not yet known who will be responding for the Home Office.

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Sajid Javid has been named as the new home secretary, in charge of the UK's immigration, security and counter-terrorism efforts. It has been a quite a rise.

The 48-year-old father of four has got his place in one of the key offices of state as part of the fallout from the Windrush revelations, and it will be his job to sort it out now.

One advantage he should have is that, as he told the Sunday Telegraph, external: "It immediately impacted me. I'm a second-generation migrant, my parents came to this country from Pakistan, just like the Windrush generation, obviously a different part of the world, from South Asia not the Caribbean, but other than that, similar in almost every way."

For those who haven't been following the story, the row has been about people who moved to the UK legally from the Commonwealth before 1973 being treated as illegal immigrants now if they had not elected to get a British passport in the past or were unable to provide a wide variety of documentary evidence that they had lived in the UK ever since.

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The Labour leader has said Amber Rudd "had to resign" after she misled MPs.

Jeremy Corbyn said the incumbent Sajid Javid will have to "deal with the hostile environment" at the Home Office and "that he will guarantee absolutely security and safety for the Windrush generation... put through the most appalling trauma".

He added that processes for compensation to the Windrush generation must be put in place, and "anyone wrongly deported is immediately allowed to come back at public cost".

"Amber Rudd's been the human shield of Theresa May and she's now gone. Theresa May now has questions to answer."

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The Windrush scandal led to the resignation of Amber Rudd, the fifth cabinet minister to resign in six months. Here is how events unfolded:

• 16 April: Ms Rudd apologises that some members of the Windrush generation are facing deportation and denied healthcare
• 17 April: Officials have to defend a decision to destroy thousands of landing card slips recording the arrival of the Windrush generation
• 20 April: A leaked memo shows Ms Rudd privately pledged to give the Home Office "teeth" in removing illegal immigrants, while Theresa May announces compensation plans
• 23 April: Ms Rudd announces a fast-track offer of UK citizenship for members of the Commonwealth post-World War II, and promises a compensation scheme
• 25 April: The home secretary mentions her "bitter regret" at failing to grasp the scale of the Windrush scandal at a home affairs select committee
• 26 April: Ms Rudd denies she agreed removal targets for migrants
• 27 April: The home secretary claims she had not seen a leaked memo referring to Home Office removal targets, and adds she should have been aware of targets
• 29 April: She resigns after another leaked letter casts fresh doubt over her knowledge of deportation targets
• 30 April: Sajid Javid is made home secretary and James Brokenshire is made local communities and government secretary

The prime minister has complimented Amber Rudd, saying she had been "very sorry" when told of the decision to resign: "I think she can look back with pride as home secretary."

She added that Ms Rudd "conducted herself with integrity" and achieved a lot in counter-terrorism, and policing.

When asked if she should take some personal responsibility for the resignation, Mrs May said: "When I was home secretary, yes, there were targets in terms of removing people from the country who were here illegally.

"If you talk to members of the public they want to ensure we are dealing with people who are here illegally."

She added that Ms Rudd was "very clear" that the reason she resigned was "because of information she gave to the House of Commons which was not correct".

Tanya Simms was born in Sheffield in 1990, but because her parents - who came from Jamaica in the 1960s - were not settled at the time, she has not been granted a British passport.

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Ms Simms said of Amber Rudd: "She’s resigned but it’s not going to sort the situation.

“It’s not fair. People have been kept prisoner in the country they are born in. Their lives have stopped.”

She said the Home Office is dealing with her case and has apologised for the issues she has been affected by.

Jo Coburn will be looking at reaction to the new home secretary with Conservative Party vice-chairman James Cleverly and Labour's Barry Gardiner.

Other guests are Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee and the Sun's political editor Tom Newton Dunn.

Later in the programme, on BBC2 from 12:00 to 13:00 there will be coverage of England's local elections, looking at the Labour and Green campaigns. There will be Conservative, Lib Dem and UKIP coverage on Tuesday's edition.

Laura Kuenssberg
BBC political editor

Sajid Javid is not particularly a close ally of the prime minister herself.

He is not particularly an ardent Remainer - although his appointment retains the balance on the vital Brexit cabinet committee.

What he is, however, is someone who has already expressed public anger about the Windrush fiasco.

In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Javid said the Windrush scandal felt "very personal" to him coming from a family of immigrants - "it could have been me, my mum or my dad".

He's also an experienced minister, who has been at several departments without major calamities.

However, he did face calls to stand down as business secretary over his response to the steel crisis in 2015 which saw Tata Steel cut thousands of jobs.

And he is also, as he sometimes jokes about with pride, a Conservative story of aspiration and hard work, a boy from an immigrant family who worked hard - and had a portrait of Margaret Thatcher in his office.

For him, challenges ahead are huge. But for him the opportunity is too.

The new home secretary has said his priority is to make sure people in the Windrush generation are "all treated with the decency and the fairness that they deserve".

Speaking to the BBC after being appointed, Sajid Javid said his parents, who migrated to the UK from Pakistan, would be incredibly proud that their son had got to one of the great offices of state.

He added: "But I haven't called my mum yet."

Whitfield Francis moved to the UK from Jamaica aged nine, and only realised he did not have British citizenship when he tried to change jobs. As a result he has not worked for the last four years.

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When asked about Amber Rudd's resignation, the 58-year-old said: "“She had to resign because people were calling for that.

“But she only picked up on something that was left by Theresa May. She happened to be the fall guy.

“Is Theresa May herself going to take responsibility for her actions or is she going to brush it off?"

He is hopeful that his issues can be resolved after they were brought to the public's attention.