Sajid Javid the right Home Secretary choice - Walsall MP

The Bromsgrove MP and former Housing Secretary was named as Amber Rudd's replacement after she resigned from the Cabinet on Sunday night for 'inadvertently' misleading Parliament over immigration targets.

He becomes Britain’s first ethnic minority Home Secretary and has pledged 'decency and fairness' for the Windrush generation migrants.

Eddie Hughes, the Conservative MP for Walsall North, said he was 'disappointed' that Ms Rudd had gone, insisting that she was doing 'an excellent job' and that no one he had spoken to in his constituency had criticised her work.

But he welcomed the appointment of Mr Javid, who he described as 'an extremely able political operator and a highly competent minister'.

"In terms of handling Windrush you probably could not have asked for a better candidate than Sajid," he said.

"His skills are much broader than one issue, and he is an excellent choice to step into the breach."

Ms Rudd's resignation has been welcomed by Labour, with Emma Reynolds saying she had done 'the honourable thing' by stepping down.

The Wolverhampton North East MP fought for justice for her constituent Paulette Wilson, who was wrongly detained in an immigration centre and threatened with deportation despite living in the UK for 50 years.

"The matter doesn’t stop at the resignation of the Home Secretary," Ms Reynolds said.

"The Government still has serious questions to answer about the appalling and inhumane way the Windrush generation has been treated.

“The Government needs to ensure that Paulette and others are properly compensated and earn back their trust by moving quickly to grant them citizenship.

"I am calling on the new Home Secretary to urgently resolve this awful national scandal.”

Meanwhile Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson, the MP for West Browmich East, said Ms Rudd had been the scapegoat for failings that originated prior to her appointment at the Home Office, when Theresa May was Home Secretary.

"I see Amber Rudd is carrying the can for the person originally responsible for this scandal, Theresa May," he said.

Mr Javid said he would look "carefully" at the Government's immigration policy and vowed to make sure people caught up in the Windrush fiasco are treated with “decency and fairness” as he arrived at the Home Office to take up his new job.

The former investment banker was given the job during a telephone call with Prime Minister Theresa May, who is on a local election campaign visit, and becomes the first person from an ethnic minority background to hold one of the four great offices of state.

He added: “We are going to have a strategy in place that does something the previous Home Secretary set out last week when she made a statement to Parliament about making sure we have an immigration policy that is fair, it treats people with respect and with decency.

“That will be one of my most urgent tasks, to make sure we look carefully at the policy and make sure it achieves just that.”