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People Power: Anti-racists take on Tories over Windrush chaos
Campaigners form group to ‘stage uprising’ against May’s hostile Britain
The Empire Windrush ship, which brought people over from the Caribbean to Britain in 1948

ANTI-RACIST activists have united to launch a Windrush Defence Campaign in “rebellion” against the government’s abhorrent treatment of Commonwealth-born British citizens, the Star can reveal today.

The group said it would be staging an “uprising” against the Home Office fostering the “hostile environment” which Home Secretary Amber Rudd said had intended to force migrants to quit Britain.

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