As we mark 75 years since the Empire Windrush anchored in Tilbury docks, heralding the arrival of many Commonwealth citizens to help rebuild the country after the second world war, the question must be asked: is there any further indignity the UK state can inflict on them?
Consider this week’s report from Human Rights Watch into the administration of the scheme. It confirms the worst fears of the Windrush scandal victims and survivors, many of whom predicted that the institutional prejudice, ignorance, carelessness and inhumanity that drove the scandal would resurface if the Home Office were allowed to manage the compensation scheme.
