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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Lizzy Buchan

Home Secretary's decision to U-turn on Windrush reforms branded 'slap in the face'

The Home Secretary has U-turned on reforms designed to prevent another Windrush scandal in a move described as a "slap in the face" by campaigners.

Suella Braverman quietly announced that she had ditched a commitment to establish a migrants' commissioner and also rowed back on calls to boost the powers of the independent chief inspector of borders and immigration (ICIBI).

She also abandoned a plan to hold reconciliation events with those affected by the Windrush scandal, which saw British citizens wrongly threatened with deportation, stripped of their jobs, benefits or even their homes as they didn't have the right paperwork.

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