Incoming PM must seize chance to stop race discourse deflecting from class inequalities, says David WeaverAndy Burnham has a historic opportunity to shift the national mood on racism, the chair of Operation Black Vote has...
Read MoreData shows only a third of concluded claims in scheme for those wrongly classed as illegal migrants resulted in pay outsThe Home Office has refused to pay compensation for more than half the claims made by victims of the...
Read MorePoliticians warn party’s pledge to ‘punish’ countries seeking justice for slavery will harm and isolate BritainCommonwealth politicians say they will not back down from seeking reparations as UK public figures, including a...
Read MoreClive Foster says action needed now to deliver justice to UK residents who had been wrongly classified as illegal immigrantsThe Windrush commissioner has warned of a “hurry for justice” as more victims of the scandal die without...
Read MoreGeorge Campbell, 69, slept in bus station as officials questioned his right to live in the UK after hospital stayA Windrush generation man who arrived in Britain as a child 60 years ago has spent several months homeless and...
Read MoreCampaigners call for urgent reform of redress scheme and say they plan to launch ‘people’s inquiry’ into failingsThe Windrush scandal remains “a stain on British society”, Floella Benjamin has said at an emotional House of Lords...
Read MoreExclusive: Claimants will also be compensated for lost contributions to work or personal pensions for first timeVictims of the Windrush scandal will be paid as much as 75% of their compensation in advance under an overhaul of...
Read MoreThis week’s Windrush Day reception at No 10 was joyous – but also a reminder of the ugliness behind the ‘island of strangers’ rhetoricThis week I went to a Windrush Day reception in the gardens of 10 Downing Street. Standing in...
Read MoreVictims of other injustices are treated better, says founder of ‘bittersweet’ Windrush DayA founder of Windrush Day has called for a public inquiry into the scandal amid this year’s “bittersweet” celebrations of Black Britons...
Read MoreGersham Williams, 74, was deported to Jamaica in 2016 but should have been exempt from order, Home Office decidesA Windrush generation man who was wrongly excluded from the UK by the Home Office has had his deportation order...
Read MoreGovernment acknowledges that many victims have felt too nervous to engage with officials from Home OfficeA £1.5m fund has been launched to encourage people affected by the Windrush scandal to come forward to seek compensation,...
Read MoreSamuel Jarrett-Coker, 61, who arrived from Sierra Leone as a child, had been trying to resolve immigration status since 1980sThe Home Office has granted a man who has lived in the UK since he was a child the right to remain...
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