The Windrush scandal was “foreseeable and avoidable”, an independent report into Home Office failings finds.
In betraying a generation of migrants by wrongfully stripping them of their rights, the department displayed “an institutional ignorance and thoughtlessness towards the issue of race and the history of the Windrush generation… which are consistent with some elements of the definition of institutional racism”, according to the inquiry.
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