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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Chris Osuh Community affairs correspondent

UNBELIEVABLE: Remove windrush payout scheme from home office control campaigners urge - Caught on Camera

People attend a Windrush commemoration, one holding a placard that reads: 'Justice for Windrush'
In April it was revealed the Home Office had refused to pay compensation for more than half the claims by Windrush scandal survivors. Photograph: Thabo Jaiyesimi/Sopa Images/Shutterstock

The prime minister and the home secretary have been urged to remove the Windrush compensation scheme from Home Office control.

About 70 public figures have signed an open letter backing a call by the Windrush Justice Community Collective (WJCC) for a radical overhaul of the scheme, which was set up to compensate those, mainly Black Britons, who were wrongly classed as illegal migrants and stripped of citizenship rights over decades.

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