A Windrush grandmother, who has paid taxes for almost 40 years, was sacked from her charity job last month - because she couldn't prove her right to remain. Jessica Eugene, who came to the UK in 1970, was fired from her receptionist job at a migrant charity after three years, ...
The government has launched a recruitment drive for nurses in the Caribbean despite ongoing concerns over the treatment of the Windrush generation. Nurses from Jamaica are to be targeted as potential recruits for the health service, the government has revealed, in its latest move to try and help mitigate the ...
Jeremy Corbyn was one of just six Labour MPs who had the courage to vote against the 2014 Immigration Act which caused the Windrush Scandal. The Labour leader joined the vast majority of his current front bench in opposing the deal, although most Labour MPs at the time abstained. Diane ...
A man born to parents who came to the UK on the Empire Windrush has been forced to miss his daughter's wedding - because he has been denied a British passport. Joseph Bravo, who has lived in the UK for 54 years, says he was unable to travel to daughter ...
The Home Office was responsible for destroying thousands of landing card slips recording Windrush immigrants’ arrival dates in the UK, a former employee has revealed. Despite warnings that the move would make it harder to check the records of older Caribbean-born residents experiencing residency difficulties, it was decided in 2010 to destroy ...
Labour MP David Lammy poured scorn on the Conservative Party in the House of Commons today, describing their "small U-turn" on the Windrush generation as a "day of national shame". Speaking after Amber Rudd announced that a new task force would be set up to help Commonwealth immigrants facing deportation he said ...
The government has admitted that some people from the Windrush generation have been deported in error. Great Britain asked for people from Caribbean countries, in the 50s and 60s, to plug a gap in the workforce. They entered the UK in the first wave of Commonwealth immigration 70 years ago. ...
The IMF said the subsidies were "adding fuel to the fire" of the climate crisis ahead of COP26.
HMRC found the 'Bad Boy of Brexit' owes just over £160,000 on almost £1 million in donations to UKIP.