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Theresa May to confront Home Office over ‘appalling’ secret policy on trafficking victims

Former British PM Theresa May in the Commons
Former British PM Theresa May at prime minister's questions in the House of Commons last week. Photograph: Maria Unger/AP

Theresa May is to confront the Home Office after it was found to have kept an “appalling” asylum policy secret, amid internal fears that its approach would be attacked by the former prime minister and other senior politicians.

In an extraordinary finding, the high court concluded last week that the Home Office had operated a secret policy that affected the asylum rights of at least 1,500 people found to be genuine victims of trafficking and modern slavery.

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