Government officials working on small boats policy referred to bloody migrants [Video]

Cabinet Office officials working on the government’s small boats plan reportedly referred to “bloody migrants” and told colleagues they were expected to leave their “humanity at the door” in a sign of civil service tensions over the controversial policy,

Rowaa Ahmar, a former senior civil servant who has withdrawn a discrimination case against the Cabinet Office, has described “inhumane conversations” in the illegal migration taskforce.

She was head of policy at the department before resigning in 2022 and later accused individuals at the heart of Boris Johnson’s government of bullying, discrimination and gaslighting.

The former civil servant, who is of Egyptian and French dual heritage, also made allegations of “systemic racism” against the Cabinet Office.

“I was privy to some inhumane conversations using the words ‘let’s boomerang them’, ‘bloody migrants’, ‘let’s take them in Cat C and treat them as …