Remove Windrush payout scheme from Home Office control, campaigners urge
Overview
Public figures sign open letter calling for scheme to be moved from Home Office to independent body
The prime minister and the home secretary have been urged to remove the Windrush compensation scheme from Home Office control.
Details
About 70 public figures have signed an open letter backing a call by the Windrush Justice Community Collective (WJCC) for a radical overhaul of the scheme, which was set up to compensate those, mainly Black Britons, who were wrongly classed as illegal migrants and stripped of citizenship rights over decades.
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Originally published at www.theguardian.com.