Home Secretary Sajid Javid has come under fire on Twitter for retweeting a video of Jeremy Corbyn with the words: “A reminder of one of the biggest threat’s [sic] to our national security”.

The original tweet was posted by BrexitTory, an anonymous Twitter account claiming to be a Conservative party member.

It shows a video clip from a 2015 interview Corbyn did with Bahraini TV station LuaLuaTV, in which he says he is opposed to Brits who’ve gone to Syria to fight with Isis being denied return to the UK.

A reminder of one of the biggest threat’s to our national security https://t.co/MXRQqytehi — Sajid Javid (@sajidjavid) August 27, 2018

Daniel Hannan, a Conservative MEP and founder of the Initiative for Free Trade (IFT), an economic think tank that has been criticised by Labour ministers who say it pursues a hard-Brexit-supporting agenda, shared the video.

“[There] is an issue about some people going from Britain, allegedly to fight with ISIS in Syria,” Corbyn said in the clip.

“The British government's response has been to try to make it impossible for them to travel, to restrict their ability to travel, to take upon themselves the ability to remove passports and, strangely, to deny people the right of return - which is legally a very questionable decision. I suspect will be fought out in the courts in Britain.”

'Disgraceful misuse of your office'

This is disgraceful misuse of your office and needs reporting to the Parliamentary Standards committee . I would like to remind you that this is the Leader of the opposition. I’m actually shocked . Shame on you . — Pat Schan #IstandwithJeremyCorbyn#JC9 (@patsy24) August 27, 2018

Corbyn supporters responded to the tweet with anger.

“This is disgraceful misuse of your office and needs reporting to the Parliamentary Standards committee . I would like to remind you that this is the Leader of the opposition. I’m actually shocked . Shame on you,” responded Pat Schan.

“Trolling again Sajid? I think British people being kicked out is one of the biggest threats to our national security,” another said.

Another user referenced the fact that there have been calls for an investigation into Islamophobia in the Conservative Party.

You are absolutely a disgraceful human being. I suggest stop using our home office to smear Jeremy Corbyn and do some actual work. By the way, has Theresa May started an inquiry into Islamophobia in her party? — Nadeem Ahmed (@Muqadaam) August 27, 2018

“You are absolutely a disgraceful human being,” wrote Nadeem Ahmed.

“I suggest stop using our home office to smear Jeremy Corbyn and do some actual work. By the way, has Theresa May started an inquiry into Islamophobia in her party?”

Islamophobia investigation

Corbyn is facing accusations of anti-Semitism after a number of incidents emerged in which he met with people linked to Palestinian terror groups and made remarks about Zionists.

The Muslim Council of Britain has also called for an investigation into Islamophobia in the Conservative Party, and the chair of the Conservative Muslim Forum Mohammed Amin has criticised Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg for meeting right-wring provocateur Steve Bannon.

The BrexitTory Twitter account frequently posts criticisms and accusations aimed at Corbyn, and earlier this month posted a tweet insinuating transgender people have a “mental disorder”.

Conservative councillor Dominic Boeck resigned from his role as head of health at West Berkshire council after retweeting it, but remains a councillor.

talkRADIO has contacted the Home Office for comment. </s> Sajid Javid has been appointed as home secretary, replacing Amber Rudd who resigned after repeatedly struggling to account for her role in the unjust treatment of Windrush-generation migrants.

Theresa May announced Javid’s appointment on Monday morning, installing the communities secretary to the Home Office where his first job will be to deal with the ongoing immigration debacle.

He is the first BAME politician to hold the role and his appointment could offer some hope to critics that the government is aware of how damaging the issue has been for community relations and trust in the immigration system.

The home secretary, whose parents emigrated from Pakistan in the 1960s, spoke at the weekend about his initial reaction to news of the treatment of Windrush-generation migrants. “I thought that could be my mum … my dad … my uncle … it could be me,” he said.

Javid, 48, said he recognised the scandal could cause concern among ethnic minority voters but issued a plea to those who were wavering to look at the government’s attempts to “put things right”.

The Home Office, one of the major offices of state, is a notoriously difficult department to run, with many secretaries having been forced to quit as a result of errors.

Dealing with the Windrush crisis, as well as the underlying problems around immigration, will be top of Javid’s inbox. However, tackling rising knife crime, fighting to justify policing cuts and handling the ongoing terrorism threat are all key issues.

A Downing Street statement said: “The Queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of the Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP as secretary of state for the home department.”

James Brokenshire, the former Northern Ireland secretary who stood down in January to have a tumour removed from his lung, was moved to Javid’s old job as housing, communities and local government secretary.



The return of the key loyalist, who was a Home Office minister throughout May’s six-year tenure there, was a predictable move from the prime minister, who is said to feel the need to bolster her fragile position with supportive allies.



The international development secretary, Penny Mordaunt, takes on the additional role of minister for equalities.

In appointing Javid, May has attempted to maintain the delicate balance in her cabinet between remainers and Brexiters, which is particularly important because the home secretary sits on the Brexit “war cabinet” which meets this week.

While Rudd was a clear advocate of staying in the European Union, within days of the referendum Javid, who had campaigned to remain, insisted the result must be respected. And while his predecessor was a strong voice around the cabinet table for staying in the customs union, the new home secretary has made clear he is sceptical of softer Brexit options.

Javid, a George Osborne protege just like Rudd, was previously a minister in the Treasury. His first cabinet appointment came in 2014 as culture secretary. The former investment banker has also served as business secretary. 



His 18 months running the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has been dominated by the fallout from the fatal Grenfell Tower fire, and pressing for more house building despite resistance from the Treasury.



Ministers moved swiftly to rally round May on Monday, insisting Rudd only stood down because she inadvertently misled MPs, not because of the wider Windrush migration scandal.



Rudd was forced to step down after a series of revelations in the Guardian about problems faced by Windrush-generation residents, which culminated in a leak on Friday that appeared to show she was aware of targets for removing people who were in the country illegally.

The pressure increased on Sunday afternoon as the Guardian revealed that in a leaked 2017 letter to May, Rudd had told the prime minister of her intention to increase deportations by 10% – seemingly at odds with her recent denials that she was aware of deportation targets.

Rudd was facing a bruising appearance in the House of Commons on Monday, which government insiders suggested she was keen to avoid. </s> London—Pakistani-origin MP Sajid Javid was today appointed as Britain's new Home Secretary, hours after his predecessor Amber Rudd resigned after admitting that she had "inadvertently misled" Parliament over the existence of deportation targets for immigrants.

Javid, the son of a Pakistani bus driver whose family migrated to Britain in the 1960s, was promoted from his Cabinet post of Communities, Local Government and Housing minister.

The 48-year-old former investment banker becomes the first South Asian origin MP to hold the key portfolio in the UK Cabinet.

He is the Conservative party MP for Bromsgrove and has previously held business and culture portfolios in the UK government.

"The Queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of...Sajid Javid MP as secretary of state for the home department," a Downing Street statement said.

His appointment is widely seen as a way for British Prime Minister Theresa May to curtail the backlash from the so-called Windrush scandal, which brought to light the unfair treatment of Commonwealth citizens from Jamaica over a lack of citizenship documentation.

"I was really concerned when I first started hearing and reading about some of the issues. It immediately impacted me. I'm a second-generation migrant. My parents came to this country... just like the Windrush generation," Javid wrote in 'The Sunday Telegraph'.

"When I heard about the Windrush issue I thought, That could be my mum it could be my dad it could be my uncle it could be me," he added.

James Brokenshire, the former Northern Ireland secretary who stood down in January due to health reasons to have a tumour removed from his lung, has been moved into Javid's old job as Housing, Communities and Local Government secretary.

UK international development secretary, Penny Mordaunt, takes on the additional role of minister for equalities.

The resignation of 52-year-old Rudd, a key ally of May, followed weeks of pressure ever since her statement to the Parliament's Home Affairs Select Committee denying knowledge of any targets to remove illegal migrants from the UK.

Leaked memos and letters in the media seemed to contradict her claims, resulting in her decision to step down.

The furor has grown since The Guardian reported that some people who came to the UK from the Caribbean in the decades after World War II had recently been refused medical care in Britain or threatened with deportation because they could not produce paperwork proving their right to reside in the country.

Those affected belong to the Windrush generation, named for the ship Empire Windrush, which in 1948 brought hundreds of Caribbean immigrants to Britain to help it rebuild after the devastation of World War II.

In recent weeks, Rudd and May have apologised repeatedly to the Windrush generation, saying all pre-1973 Commonwealth immigrants who don't already have British citizenship will get it, and those affected will get compensation.

Rudd said she took "full responsibility" for the fact that she was not aware of "information provided to (her) office which makes mention of targets".

She telephoned May to tell her of her decision, but in a letter that officially marked it she wrote: "It is with great regret that I am resigning as home secretary.

"I feel it is necessary to do so because I inadvertently misled the Home Affairs Select Committee over targets for removal of illegal immigrants during their questions on Windrush."

May said she understood why Rudd was stepping down and confirmed she had read her letter, adding: "I was very sorry to receive it."

The prime minister said she believed Rudd had given her evidence to the House of Commons "in good faith" but that she understood her decision to resign and take "responsibility for inadvertently misleading the home affairs select committee".

Rudd's resignation may weaken Prime Minister Theresa May's government. The prime minister doesn't have a majority in the UK parliament and is struggling with Brexit negotiations.

Since May lost her parliamentary majority in elections last June, her leadership has often been under question, and she has already suffered three prior cabinet resignations.

Rudd became the fourth person forced to resign from the UK Cabinet in the last six months following former defence minister Sir Michael Fallon, former international development minister Priti Patel and May's deputy Damian Green.

The latest resignation comes just days before local council elections in Britain, due to be held on May 3, during which the Opposition parties will hope to capitalise on some of the upheaval in government. </s> • Sajid Javid was eliminated from the race to replace Theresa May as Conservative Party leader and prime minister.
• The home secretary fell out in the fourth round of voting after losing support from Conservative MPs.
• The race for second place behind Boris Johnson is now between Jeremy Hunt and Michael Gove.

LONDON – Sajid Javid has been eliminated from the race to replace Theresa May as Conservative Party leader and prime minister.

The home secretary received fewer votes than his three rivals in a secret ballot on Thursday morning, with support consolidating around Jeremy Hunt and Michael Gove, the two candidates who colleagues believe are best-placed to take on Boris Johnson in the final two.

Boris Johnson once again topped the poll, winning 157 votes from Conservative MPs, while Michael Gove jumped into sceond place with 61 votes. Hunt, who placed second in the first three rounds of voting, placed third with 59 votes.

Two of the votes were spoilt ballots.

A fourth and final round of voting will take place on Thursday evening, where the third-placed candidate will be knocked out. The result is due at around 18.15 GMT.

One from the remaining two candidates will then be selected as the next Conservative leader in July by the party’s 160,000-or-so members.

The winner will be announced on July 22.

Javid, who was seen as an outsider in the leadership race, played a prominent role in the contest, winning plaudits for making all other candidates agree to hold an independent inquiry into Islamophobia in the party if they become prime minister.

He was appointed as Home Secretary in 2018, and has also served as Business Secretary and Culture Secretary. </s> Rory Stewart said he was “never confident” but “always hopeful” as he battled to remain in the contest to be the next prime minister.

As Tory MPs vote for the second time, candidates need to secure 33 votes to survive, and Mr Stewart said he believed he had that number “if everybody does what they say”.

International Development Secretary Mr Stewart, who managed just 19 votes last week, and Home Secretary Sajid Javid, who got 23, were locked in a fight to reach the threshold.

Mr Javid said he was “quietly confident” of making it through, adding that he was “looking forward to the debate this evening” – the remaining candidates will appear on the BBC at 8pm.

The Home Secretary, the state educated son of a bus driver, urged colleagues to back him to prevent the contest looking like “a debate at the Oxford Union”.

Mr Javid, the only candidate left in the race not to have gone to Oxford University, said it would not be “healthy” for the party if all the candidates left in the contest had similar backgrounds.

He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “If we end up in a situation where the final two, three, four even, are people from similar backgrounds with similar life experiences, it will look like a debate at the Oxford Union and I just don’t think that’s healthy for the Tory Party.”

The Home Secretary joked that his style was “less Homer’s Iliad and more Homer Simpson”.

In a sign that the contest is becoming more personal, a former aide to Mr Javid claimed Mr Stewart’s supporters were targeting the Home Secretary’s backers “urging them to vote for Rory so we can offer ‘something different’ in final two”.

Further votes on Wednesday and Thursday will see two candidates selected for the final ballot of Tory members, with frontrunner Boris Johnson almost certain to be one of them.

On Twitter, Mr Javid’s ex-special adviser Nick King added: “Saj’s dad was an immigrant. Saj went to his local comp and an FE College. Rory went to Eton and Balliol just like Boris.”

Mr Stewart, who has been forced to deny allegations that he had been a spy for MI6, suggested the claims about his background were the result of a rival “getting a bit rattled”.

His campaign has gathered momentum and won the backing of de facto deputy prime minister David Lidington, but he faces a difficult task to overhaul the vote tallies of rivals.

Mr Johnson, the clear winner in the first round of voting, will face his first televised showdown of the campaign when he appears at the BBC debate later.

He has secured even more pledges of support – including former leadership rival Andrea Leadsom – since winning 114 votes last week.

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and Environment Secretary Michael Gove were the only other candidates to secure more than 33 votes in the first round.

Former Brexit secretary Dominic Raab, who got 27 votes, said he too was now “quietly” confident of reaching 33.

In a new campaign video, Mr Raab said his love of karate and boxing had “been pretty good in terms of preparing me for other big moments”.

He highlighted the importance of education, saying “everyone should have the opportunity to go as far as their talents can take them”.

Mrs Leadsom gave her backing to Mr Johnson on Tuesday morning, telling LBC he was the “best placed to get us out of the EU at the end of October” and an “election winner”.

Meanwhile, Mr Gove, who came third in the first ballot with 37 votes, used a Times article to say the final two candidates should “believe in Brexit” and be able to deliver it and unite the Tory party.

In an apparent reference to Mr Johnson and Mr Stewart, he said: “It would be a mistake to put forward two candidates to the final round who will polarise our party.” </s> The new Home Secretary Sajid Javid has been called to the House of Commons to answer an Urgent Question on the Windrush scandal .

It comes after Theresa May refused three times to answer questions over whether she should resign over the fiasco which has seen members of that cohort denied medical treatment and benefits.

The rattled Prime Minister desperately tried to apply life support to her “decomposing” Government following Amber Rudd's dramatic resignation by replacing her with Sajid Javid.

He is the first BAME holder of the post in its history. But as the focus swiftly moved from Ms Rudd to Mrs May, the PM dodged repeated questions on whether she should take responsibility for the Windrush fiasco.

Speaking to reporters during a local elections visit to Sale, Greater Manchester, Mrs May was asked three times if the Windrush scandal was a resignation matter for her or if she should take responsibility for it.

Instead, she simply said: "The Windrush generation are British, they are here, they are part of us and what we have done is, in recognising the concern that has been raised, put a team in place that will be working with people to ensure that they get the documents that are necessary."

Mrs May also defended targets for the removal of illegal immigrants as she confirmed the practice was in place when she was Home Secretary. Jeremy Corbyn insisted Mrs May had "questions to answer" about her time in the Home Office - saying Ms Rudd had been the "human shield" for the Prime Minister.

The Labour leader said Mrs May "now has questions to answer" about "what she actually did as home secretary".

"She was presiding over, in her terms, the creation of a hostile environment," he added.

Mrs May later ducked further scrutiny by sending new Home Secretary Mr Javid to the Commons to answer an urgent question on the Windrush scandal from Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott.

Earlier, senior Labour figures and even some Tories today said Mrs May’s administration was now effectively dying. Ex-Tory Chancellor George Osborne swiped: “The Government just got a bit less human.”

And Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said the Government was “in terminal disarray”, adding: “You can smell the undoubted odour of a government decomposing.” </s> Britain's Home Secretary Sajid Javid, centre, meets police officers as he visits Muggleton Road where counter-terrorism officers are investigating after a couple were left in a critical condition when they were exposed to the nerve agent Novichok, in Amesbury, England, Sunday July 8, 2018. Javid visited Amesbury and Salisbury in southwestern England to reassure residents that the risk to the public remains very low despite the recent poisoning of two people exposed to a deadly nerve agent. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP) less

Britain's Home Secretary Sajid Javid, centre, meets police officers as he visits Muggleton Road where counter-terrorism officers are investigating after a couple were left in a critical condition when they were ... more

Britain's Home Secretary Sajid Javid, centre, exits the police cordon at Muggleton Road where counter-terrorism officers are investigating after a couple were left in a critical condition when they were exposed to the nerve agent Novichok, in Amesbury, England, Sunday July 8, 2018. Javid visited Amesbury and Salisbury in southwestern England to reassure residents that the risk to the public remains very low despite the recent poisoning of two people exposed to a deadly nerve agent. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP) less

Britain's Home Secretary Sajid Javid, centre, exits the police cordon at Muggleton Road where counter-terrorism officers are investigating after a couple were left in a critical condition when they were exposed ... more

FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, July 5, 2018, an unidentified British police officer guards a cordon in Salisbury, England. Officials say Saturday July 7, 2018, that a police officer is being tested for possible medical problems related to the recent Novichok nerve agent poisoning of two individuals in southwest England. less

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LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the nerve agent poisonings in England (all times local):

British police say a woman who was exposed to a nerve agent in southern England has died.

London's Metropolitan Police said 44-year-old Dawn Sturgess died Sunday in a hospital in Salisbury.

Sturgess had been hospitalized after falling ill on June 30 along with 45-year-old Charlie Rowley.

Police say they were exposed to Novichok, the same type of nerve agent used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury In March.

Police suspect they were exposed through a contaminated item left over from the first attack, which Britain blames on Russia. Russia has denied the allegation.

Britain's home secretary is visiting Amesbury and Salisbury in southwestern England to reassure residents that the risk to the public remains very low despite the recent poisoning of two people exposed to a deadly nerve agent.

Sajid Javid said Sunday that both towns remain open for business and urged people to visit.

More than 100 police officers are working to try and locate a small vial believed to have contained the nerve agent Novichok, which was manufactured in the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

The never agent was used in the March attack on an ex-Russian spy and his daughter, and two Britons have been critically ill since they were exposed to it eight days ago. </s> Theresa May has defended targets for the removal of illegal immigrants as she confirmed the practice was in place when she was home secretary.

Members of the public want the Government to deal with people who have no right to be in the country, the Prime Minister insisted.

But Jeremy Corbyn insisted Mrs May had “questions to answer” about her time in the Home Office.

Mrs May made Sajid Javid Home Secretary after Amber Rudd quit, admitting she “inadvertently” misled MPs over Government targets for removing illegal migrants.

During a local election campaign visit to Greater Manchester, Mrs May said: “When I was home secretary, yes, there were targets in terms of removing people from the country who were here illegally.

“This is important. If you talk to members of the public they want to ensure that we are dealing with people who are here illegally.”

Mr Corbyn said Ms Rudd had been the “human shield” for the Prime Minister.

The Labour leader said Mrs May “now has questions to answer” about “what she actually did as home secretary”.

“She was presiding over, in her terms, the creation of a hostile environment,” he said.

As well as the row over targets on migrant removals, Ms Rudd had also been battling intense criticism over the Windrush scandal, which has seen people from a Caribbean background denied access to benefits and healthcare or threatened with deportation despite decades of residence in the UK.

She became the fifth enforced departure from the Cabinet since last year’s snap general election and stepped down the evening before she was due to make a statement in the House of Commons.

Mr Javid vowed to make sure people caught up in the Windrush fiasco are treated with “decency and fairness” as he arrived at the Home Office to take up his new job.

The former investment banker was given the job during a telephone call with Mrs May and becomes the first person from an ethnic minority background to hold one of the four great offices of state.

He said: “The most urgent task I have is to help those British citizens that came from the Caribbean, the so-called Windrush generation, and make sure that they are treated with the decency and the fairness that they deserve.”

He added: “We are going to have a strategy in place that does something the previous home secretary set out last week when she made a statement to Parliament about making sure we have an immigration policy that is fair, it treats people with respect and with decency.

“That will be one of my most urgent tasks, to make sure we look carefully at the policy and make sure it achieves just that.”

He was replaced as Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government by former Northern Ireland secretary James Brokenshire, who has recently returned to Westminster after treatment for cancer.

International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt takes on Ms Rudd’s former responsibilities as Minister for Women and Equalities.

Culture Secretary Matt Hancock hailed him as “a serious political thinker who gets things done” while Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss described him as “effective, no-nonsense and brave”. </s> Sajid Javid said a day in which he remained in the Tory leadership contest "got so much better" thanks to a letter he received from his daughter.

The Home Secretary, who finished fourth in the third round of voting as Rory Stewart was knocked out of the race, arrived home to find a letter from 10-year-old Maya, one of his four children.

Maya wrote: "I am writing this letter because I am proud of you for doing so well for coming this far to being prime-minister.

"I love you so much and belive in you and you have to belive in yourself too all you need to become pm is passion, love, confedence and sportsmanship. Thats all you need.

"if you don't come pm me and your lovely family will be proud and be greatfull that we have shuch an amazing dad/husband. Love you so much!

Mr Javid launched his leadership campaign earlier this month with a video that showed his family waving him off as he left for work in the morning.

He shared the letter from Maya via Twitter, writing: "A long but exciting day just got so much better... came home to this from my 10yr old. Whatever happens next, I will be happy."

The next two rounds of the leadership contest will take place on Thursday, with another two contenders being knocked out of the race.

Mr Javid finished fourth in Wednesday's third round with 38 votes from fellow Tory MPs, 13 behind Michael Gove in third place.
Home Secretary Sajid Javid comes under criticism for describing Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn on Twitter as "one of the biggest threat's [sic] to our national security".