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

Department has admitted that it hid the policy due to concerns about former PM's reaction

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.