UK Immigration Minister Mark Harper, who launched the notorious “go home or face arrest” campaign, has resigned from his post after it materialized that his cleaner did not have permission to be working in the UK.
Harper handed in his resignation to UK Prime Minister David Cameron. A statement released by Downing Street on Saturday said that there had been “no suggestion” that Harper had “knowingly” employed an illegal immigrant.
Cameron said that it was with “regret” that the resignation was accepted. Harper will remain an MP in his constituency.
Controversy erupted last year surrounding an advertising campaign spearheaded by Harper. Vans were deployed in six London boroughs bearing billboards instructing illegal immigrants to “go home or face arrest.”
The drive provoked an enormous backlash, and a UK advertising watchdog eventually banned it on the grounds that it was “misleading” - despite the majority of complainants denouncing it as racist or offensive. Full story...
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Harper handed in his resignation to UK Prime Minister David Cameron. A statement released by Downing Street on Saturday said that there had been “no suggestion” that Harper had “knowingly” employed an illegal immigrant.
Cameron said that it was with “regret” that the resignation was accepted. Harper will remain an MP in his constituency.
Controversy erupted last year surrounding an advertising campaign spearheaded by Harper. Vans were deployed in six London boroughs bearing billboards instructing illegal immigrants to “go home or face arrest.”
The drive provoked an enormous backlash, and a UK advertising watchdog eventually banned it on the grounds that it was “misleading” - despite the majority of complainants denouncing it as racist or offensive. Full story...
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