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Remove Windrush payout scheme from Home Office control, campaigners urge
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Public figures sign open letter calling for scheme to be moved from Home Office to independent body UK politics live – latest updates. The prime minister and the home secretary have been urged to remove the Windrush compensation scheme from Home Office control.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. Continue reading...
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