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May and Corbyn clash over Windrush at PMQs

Thousands of people who came to the UK as child migrants from the Caribbean - from the 1940s to the 1970s - do not have documents proving their legal right to stay in the UK.

It has now transpired that many landing cards from the Windrush-era have been destroyed.

At Prime Minister's Questions, Theresa May told MPs that the move was approved in 2009 - when Labour was in power.

The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn accused Theresa May of being "heartless and hopeless" and later in the day, Labour challenged her remarks about landing cards, as Simon Jones reports.

You can hear more from Today in Parliament at 11.30pm on Radio 4.

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