Remove Windrush payout scheme from Home Office control, campaigners urge

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Public figures sign open letter calling for scheme to be moved from Home Office to independent body

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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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