Windrush scandal
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The Windrush scandal was a British political scandal that began in 2018 concerning people who were wrongly detained, denied legal rights, threatened with deportation, and in at least 83 cases wrongly
HMT Empire Windrush after which the Windrush generation is named
In 2012 (photo 2013), Home Secretary Theresa May introduced the hostile environment policy.
Amber Rudd resigned as Home Secretary in April 2018 in connection with the scandal.
Sajid Javid replaced Amber Rudd as Home Secretary in May 2018, and aimed to address the injustices of the scandal.
HMT Empire Windrush
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HMT Empire Windrush was a passenger motor ship that was launched in Germany in 1930 as the MV Monte Rosa. She was built as an ocean liner for the German shipping company Hamburg Süd. They used the shi
Windrush scandal
…subjects and had arrived in the UK before 1973, particularly from Caribbean countries, as members of the "Windrush generation" (so named after the Empire Windrush, the ship that brought one of the first groups of West Indian migrants to the UK in 1948). As well as those who were deported, an unknown number were…
Monte Cervantes, one of Monte Rosa's sister ships, 1930
Monte Cervantes' engine room
A torpedo-equipped Bristol Beaufighter of 144 Squadron, an aircraft of the type the squadron used to attack Monte Rosa