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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Amelia Gentleman and Rajeev Syal

Suella Braverman plans to ditch key Windrush pledges

‘I think they want to forget this ever happened’: Anthony Bryan, who was wrongly held in immigration detention and booked on a flight to Jamaica.
‘I think they want to forget this ever happened’: Anthony Bryan, who was wrongly held in immigration detention and booked on a flight to Jamaica. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images

Suella Braverman is planning to abandon several of the key commitments made in the wake of the Windrush scandal as the UK government prepares to implement hardline promises to fast-track the detention and removal of migrants.

Sources told the Guardian that the home secretary has dropped a pledge to create the post of a migrants’ commissioner, who was due to be responsible for speaking up for migrants and for identifying systemic problems within the UK immigration system.

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