*Why* did the Home Office ignore the law in order to implement racist policies? As the EHRC report found, because that's what Theresa May and David Cameron wanted.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55065061

As a direct consequence, Home Office Ministers and officials deliberately and illegally ignored the impact of the "hostile environment" on ethnic minorities:

https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/default/files/public-sector-equality-duty-assessment-of-hostile-environment-policies.pdf

Home Office Ministers - in particular but not only Theresa May - and senior officials *chose* to ignore the racist impacts of their policies, despite repeated and direct warnings at the time.

None of this was accidental..

[Preempting comments: issues raised here *very* different from EHRC's equally shocking report in anti-semitism and Labour. Direct comparisons unhelpful.

However, *impacts* are very different. "Hostile environment" led to people being deported to die in poverty.]

Worth remembering what new EHRC Commissioner @David_Goodhart said about the "hostile environment" at the time. Would be interested to know if he endorses today's report..

https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/david-goodhart-at-last-we-are-talking-about-and-dealing-with-illegals-8738189.html

[FWIW I don't personally think an article from 2013 disqualifies @David_Goodhart from joining @EHRC - but he does have a moral obligation to tell us what he thinks of today's report and whether in retrospect he got it wrong and why.]