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The Windrush scandal shows why we need a change of direction
We need a full and open investigation into how the government could have treated so many people who had travelled here legally with such cruelty, writes DIANE ABBOTT
A demonstration on Whitehall attended by members of the Windrush generation and supporters
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A part of the British empire’s network of slavery, today the Caribbean island of Nevis faces a new form of exploitation in the form of crypto-colonialism, CLAUDIA WEBBE writes
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THE Windrush generation scandal which has rocked the government has already obliged Prime Minister Theresa May to apologise and Amber Rudd to resign as home secretary.
Within this context, a recent written statement on immigration from the government represented a U-turn.
Only weeks before, when I called for a statutory instrument to guarantee the rights and status of the Windrush generation — all those who arrived here from the Commonwealth before 1973 — ministers said this was unnecessary.
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