“To see ill-informed Labour politicians and do-gooding celebrities attempting to conflate victims of Windrush with vile criminals set for deportation is deeply offensive," Patel said.
Reports emerge of successful legal bids as Home Secretary faces mounting uproar over deportations.
Jeremy Corbyn called the deportation “the continuation of an unnecessarily harsh approach that ought to have been abandoned on the back of lessons learnt from the Windrush scandal”.
“It is unacceptable that equality legislation was effectively ignored in the creation and delivery of policies that had such profound implications for so many people’s lives."
Like the rest of his gilded existence, Boris was once again everywhere and nowhere.
“I slightly despair about the lack of reassurance that you are able to give us about what practical measures are going to be in place to keep our borders safe.”
The amendment to continue existing arrangements had been successfully moved in the House of Lords by refugee campaigner and Labour peer Lord Dubs, who fled the Nazis as a child on the Kindertransport.
The damning comments come as Priti Patel was ‘bitterly disappointed’ a flight due to take asylum seekers from Britain to Spain was halted.
Therese Coffey's answers were described as lacking in "reason and lacking in compassion".