UK immigration minister resigns over illegal cleaner

Mark Harper

In what could be a rare occurrence in Africa, especially Nigeria, UK minister of  immigration, Mark Harper has tendered his letter of resignation over issues bordering on the his cleaner who has no right to work in the United kingdom. 

 His office cleaner whom he employed in 2007 had no papers to work in the united kingdom. 

The Prime Minister, David Cameroon accepted the letter of resignation  with regrets  and said that he was sure the minister was not aware of the cleaner's immigration status. 

Here is the full report by BBC:

Immigration minister Mark Harper has resigned from the government after it emerged his cleaner did not have permission to work in the UK.Mr Harper notified Prime Minister David Cameron, who accepted his resignation "with regret", Number 10 said.

It added there was "no suggestion" the 43-year-old Conservative MP for the Forest of Dean had "knowingly employed an illegal immigrant".Fellow Tory James Brokenshire has been appointed the new immigration minister.

In his letter to the PM, Mr Harper said he would continue in his role as MP.He also explained in the letter that he had made checks when he first employed the cleaner at his London flat in 2007.

A year later, he said, he talked a lot about employers and landlords carrying out "reasonable checks" on workers.Given this focus, he said, he thought it "prudent to check that all my documents were in order for my cleaner".

"I undertook an extensive search to locate the copies of documents I had taken but unfortunately I was unable to locate them," he wrote.