Windrush scandal: Campaigners demand citizenship for all victims from new govt

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Windrush scandal: Campaigners demand citizenship for all victims from new govt

Windrush campaigners are calling on the next government to grant citizenship to all Windrush victims in its first 100 days.

It is 76 years since the Empire Windrush arrived in Essex with more than a thousand people from the Caribbean who had been invited to help remedy a post-war labour shortage.

They were given the right to live and work in Britain permanently but some were later wrongly deemed illegal immigrants. Shamaan Freeman-Powell reports.

For more on this story: https://news.sky.com/story/windrush-scandal-campaigners-demand-citizenship-for-all-victims-in-first-100-days-of-new-government-13156915

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Date: June 22, 2024