The Windrush Scandal: lessons learned and not learned

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Today, June 22, marks Windrush Day, which honours the Commonwealth migrants who came to the UK in the decades after WWII, rebuilding a depleted workforce.

After years of campaigning for the date to be declared an official anniversary, it was formalised in 2018 amid a scandal over the Government's treatment of the so-called "Windrush generation".

In April that year, the Guardian reported on a growing number of cases of Windrush descendants, who were being denied their rights, detained and even deported on the false basis they were “illegal immigrants”.

With many still struggling to prove their Britishness and crippled by the costs of legal support, what have we learned from the Windrush scandal?

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