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Windrush 75 – the fight to honour a generation’s legacy is still far from over
The government’s obfuscation, evasiveness and delay since the Windrush scandal was exposed makes clear that those in power cannot be trusted to do the right thing, says CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
Windrush campaigners (left to right) Michael Anthony Braithwaite, Janet McKay-Williams, Auckland Elwaldo Romeo, Glenda Caesar, Patrick Vernon and Dr Wanda Wporska hand in a petition to 10 Downing Street, London, calling on the Home Secretary Suella Braver

THIS week marks the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury Dock on June 22 1948, which started the process, which continued until 1971, of pioneers from all over the Caribbean paving the way to support and meet the needs of a nation recovering from war.

Britain invited them to help in the aftermath of World War II, and in solidarity they came.

My own family were among that generation. My parents arrived from the Caribbean Island of Nevis and settled in Leicester and, like others of their generation, made huge sacrifices to build the Britain we know today. 

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