Ian Wright and MPs David Lammy, Yvette Cooper and Caroline Lucas criticise U-turn by Suella Braverman before 75th anniversary
The government has been criticised by several public figures after the news of the home secretary’s plans to abandon several key commitments made after theOn Friday, the Guardian reported that Suella Braverman wasmade since the Windrush scandal, including dropping the pledge to create a migrants’ commissioner and a U-turn on the promise to increase the powers of the independent chief inspector of borders and immigration.
The recommendations were originally accepted three years ago by the government after a formal inquiry by Wendy Williams examined the scandal under which theerroneously classified legal residents, many of whom arrived from Caribbean countries as children in the 1950s and 1960s, as immigrants living in the UK illegally.
This is despite the former home secretary, Priti Patel, having made a firm promise to introduce all 30 recommendations made by Williams in 2020, who listed in herthe precise steps the department needed to take to avoid any repeat of the scandal. Prominent black Britons who have criticised the government include Ian Wright, who referred to the government as “evil” and “heartless”, as well as the MP David Lammy who told the home secretary: “Using the Windrush Generation as a political football is totally reprehensible. Backsliding on the recommendations after the scandalous way innocent black Britons were treated by the government is sick, cruel and debases the UK.
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