UK government to act on all 30 Windrush recommendations

Priti Patel says she will do all she can to help people wrongly told they were in UK illegally

• ‘Lambs to the slaughter’: 50 lives ruined by the Windrush scandal

Priti Patel has promised significant cultural and systemic reform of the Home Office, as she accepted all 30 recommendations of the independent review into the Windrush scandal.

The home secretary’s announcement commits the government to undertaking a “scrupulous” evaluation of the risks and effectiveness of its controversial hostile environment legislation, and to ensure that all Home Office policies are “rooted in humanity”.

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