Keir Starmer urged to quickly fix ‘broken’ EU settlement scheme

The signatories’ demands include efforts to clear the 137,000 backlog of EU citizens still waiting for a Home Office decision on their status. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

Keir Starmer must take quick steps to fix the “broken” Home Office settlement scheme for EU citizens who were in the country before Brexit to avoid a repeat of the Windrush scandal, campaigners have said.

The grassroots organisation the3million and 75 other organisations including immigration law firms, civil rights groups and NGOs have written to the prime minister seeking a wholesale review of the Home Office’s implementation of the Brexit withdrawal agreement (WA).