The nation was shocked and appalled when the Windrush scandal hit the news in 2018. Rightly so, for what happened was the destruction of the lives of black Britons as a direct result of a Government policy.

The Windrush Lessons Learned Review puts beyond any doubt what we have said all along: that the scandal was not an isolated mistake, but the inevitable result of Home Office policies aimed at creating a Hostile Environment for people unable to easily prove their right to be in the country.  To this day the elements of institutional racism and policies responsible for the scandal, including the Hostile Environment, continue to tear lives apart. 

Justice for the Windrush Generation will not be fully served until the Hostile Environment is scrapped and the attitudes which drove its creation are rooted out. 

The Review shows that the Home Office culture of disregard for people’s human rights and humanity and disbelief of their testimony …