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Tory apologies are meaningless while they stand by the ‘hostile environment’
People attend an event in Windrush Square, Brixton, south London, organised by Stand up to Racism in solidarity with the Windrush generation and their families

OFFICIAL expressions of sorrow, sympathy and assurances of recompense to the children of Windrush generation are meaningless because the government stands by its legislation that sparked their problems.

Justice Secretary David Gauke made this clear yesterday in rejecting calls for Home Secretary Amber Rudd to resign, explaining that, “when it comes down to it, the central policy is right.”

The central policy in this case is the Immigration Act 2014 passed by the coalition government — yes, the cuddly Liberal Democrats Vince Cable, Nick Clegg and David Laws in bed with David Cameron, George Osborne and Theresa May — to remove rights established in 1973 from Caribbean-born British citizens.

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