Sajid Javid has insisted Britain 'does not want' 32 Windrush migrants who were deported after committing serious offences.

The Home Secretary made the remarks as he gave an update on efforts to track down those who might have been wrongly kicked out of the country.

But Mr Javid was criticised by Labour's David Lammy, who said British citizens should not be evicted even if they had committed crimes.

Thousands of people who arrived in the UK after the Second World War have been caught up in a government crackdown on illegal immigration.

Home Secretary Sajid Javid (pictured left in London today) reiterated his determination to review the 'hostile environment' policy towards illegal immigration, which was pushed under Theresa May (pictured right at church in Maidenhead)

Mr Javid was criticised by Labour's David Lammy, who said it was wrong to evict British citizens even if they had committed crimes

Many were ordered to leave after being unable to provide documentary proof they were entitled to stay.

Appearing on the BBC's Andrew Marr show today, Mr Javid said that up to 63 Windrush migrants may have been deported wrongfully in the fiasco.

He said the government had so far managed to track down seven of those individuals.

What is the Windrush scandal and how did the fiasco develop? June 22, 1948 - The Empire Windrush passenger ship docked at Tilbury from Jamaica. The 492 passengers were temporarily housed near Brixton in London. Over the following decades some 500,000 came to the UK. Many arrived on their parents' passports and were not formally naturalised as British citizens. 1973 - A new immigration Act comes into force putting the onus on individuals to prove they have previously been resident in the UK. 2010 - The Home Office destroyed thousands of landing card slips recording Windrush immigrants’ arrival dates in the UK. The move came despite staff warnings that the move would make it harder to check the records of older Caribbean-born residents experiencing residency difficulties, it was claimed 2014 - A protection that exempted Commonwealth residents from enforced removal was removed under a new law. Theresa May was Home Secretary at the time. Under a crackdown on illegals, Windrush immigrants are obliged to provide proof they were resident in the UK before 1973. July 2016 - Mrs May becomes Prime Minister. April 2018 - Allegations that Windrush immigrants are being threatened with deportation break. Theresa May issued a grovelling apology to Caribbean leaders after major backlash April 29 - Amber Rudd resigns after inadvertently misleading Parliament by wrongly claiming there were no deportation targets Advertisement

However, Mr Javid said another 32 had been deported as foreign nationals after being convicted of serious offences.

'I don't want them back in our country,' he added.

Mr Javid said the government was still working to establish how many people from the Windrush generation might have been wrongly detained during the crackdown.

The Home Secretary reiterated his determination to review the 'hostile environment' policy towards illegal immigration, which was pushed under Theresa May.

He said he preferred to describe the government's approach as a 'compliant environment'.

'From Windrush, there will be lessons to be learned about how all that compliant environment policy is actually implemented. Is it actually working the way it was intended?' he said.

'I am going to look at how it's being implemented, I want to review aspects of the policy, I've already made some changes, certainly I've suspended certain things, for example opening bank accounts and whether you can or cannot as an illegal immigrant.'

However, Mr Lammy - a high-profile campaigner on the Windrush scandal - said those who had committed crimes were still British citizens.

'All Windrush citizens who have been deported are British citizens,' he said.

'We do not deport British citizens - if they have committed a crime they serve their time.

'We stopped deporting citizens to Australia in 1868. They are citizens first and foremost, everything else is secondary.'

During his interview, Mr Javid risked a rift with Mrs May by signalling a U-turn on tough immigration restrictions for NHS workers.

The Home Secretary said he 'saw the problem' with the cap on non-EU staff coming to fill posts in the health service.

Mr Javid also offered only lukewarm backing for Mrs May's target of bringing net immigration below 100,000 a year - and suggested that students could be taken out of the figures.

Appearing on the BBC's Andrew Marr show today, Mr Javid said that up to 63 Windrush migrants may have been deported wrongfully in the fiasco