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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Lizzy Buchan

What was the Windrush scandal and who were the victims of the injustice

Theresa May’s Government was rocked by the Windrush scandal in 2018, when evidence of the mistreatment of elderly Caribbean migrants provoked a wave of public outrage.

Reports began to emerge in 2017 about the problems faced by people who had come from the UK from the Caribbean from the 1940s to the 1970s.

Despite living in Britain for decades, some lost their jobs, were refused medical care or even faced deportation threats because they lacked the proper documentation.

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