Windrush commissioner: Black Britons asking if UK is ‘going backwards’

The Rev Clive Foster calls for more empathy and compassion from the Home Office. Photograph: Fabio De Paola/The Guardian

Black Britons are asking if the UK is “going backwards”, the Windrush commissioner has warned in an interview marking his 100th day in office.

The Rev Clive Foster said Windrush scandal survivors were questioning whether “history is repeating itself” as UK politicians target legal migrants.