Full disclosure has been called for over the conduct of officials during the Windrush scandal, amid warnings against the civil service “closing ranks to protect its own”. Tory peer Baroness
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Britain’s treatment of immigrants means it is no better than human rights abusers, a former minister has warned. Labour’s David Lammy said the country’s moral authority is “in the gutter”
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A Windrush migrant who died while trying to prove his British citizenship was described as a “shadow of himself” by his lawyer. Dexter Bristol collapsed in the street and died
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As many as 164 members of the Windrush generation may have been wrongly removed, detained or stopped at the border, an official review suggests. The number includes 18 long-term UK
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The ID registration system for EU citizens in the UK after Brexit should also be rolled out to British citizens to avoid another Windrush scandal, a think tank has suggested.
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A member of the Windrush Generation forced to pay for cancer treatment is bringing a High Court challenge against a key part of the Government’s “hostile environment” immigration policy. The
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A committee of MPs has demanded “root and branch reform” of the Home Office’s culture, policies and approach to immigration following the Windrush scandal. A report by the House of
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Immigration officials used powers of detention “unlawfully and inappropriately” to hold members of the so-called Windrush generation even though they were entitled to be in the UK, a parliamentary inquiry
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The Windrush generation’s contribution to the NHS since its conception will be among their efforts celebrated during the 70th anniversary of the beginning of a wave of Caribbean migration to
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Issuing identity cards would help avert a larger Windrush-style scandal post-Brexit, ministers have been told. Leading academic Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve argued of the need for “robust identification documents”, demonstrating
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