Thanks to Wear Red: Stand Up and Be Counted for this snapshot of Mrs May’s contrition (or lack of it) at the misery her “hostile environment” policy has caused.

All Theresa May had to do was utter three little words, and this might have been a very different story. But she simply could not find it in herself to say: “I was wrong.”

That’s what the members of the Windrush generation, who have been wronged in some of the most spectacularly heartless ways in the recent history of the United Kingdom, wanted to hear her tell Andrew Marr on his Sunday morning television show as the Conservative Party Conference began.

And they didn’t get it, even after Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott called for it on Twitter:

Instead, Mrs May managed to spit out a partial apology for the targeting of people who have every right to live and work in the UK, and receive state benefits, by her “hostile environment” policy.

But it wasn’t easy. Watch the following clip and you will see Mrs May appearing to choke on her words at around the 16 second mark. That’s what she’s doing in the image at the top of this article.

It got worse from there. She stuttered, she choked some more, but she was determined not to give the people she herself had personally wronged the satisfaction they deserve.

The performance was an insult – and Ms Abbott, who had clearly watched the interview after tweeting about it, drew all the right conclusions. In a statement, she said: “Theresa May’s refusal to apologise for her hostile environment policy is disgusting.

“It is astonishing that the Prime Minister doesn’t care to know how many people have been denied access to healthcare or lost their homes.

“The Windrush scandal has exposed a moral failure at the heart of this rotten Government. Lives have been destroyed. Theresa May should hang her head in shame.”

No, she should have resigned months ago.

It is incredible that this should happen so soon after it was revealed that Mrs May had failed to apologise for the death of a woman who had been refused benefits by her Tory government – and in fact had failed to even acknowledge that it had happened or offer condolences to the family of the deceased.

What we’re seeing here is a racist prime minister defiantly refusing to acknowledge the harm she deliberately inflicted – and harming herself in the process.

I suggest this because her apology about the “hostile environment” policy was released to coincide with the start of the Tory conference – and to give it a popularity boost.

Instead, it has revealed that the Tories are still the “nasty” party Mrs May claimed they were, many years ago – and herself the nastiest of the whole rotten lot.

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