The Uncertainty Hanging Over Windrush Families Is Unacceptable
There are few moments more iconic in modern British history than the arrival of HMS Windrush.When the Windrush docked in Essex in June 1948, it brought nearly five hundred Caribbean migrants to live, work and settle in Britain. By the 1960s that number had swelled to hundreds of thousands of people, who had answered a call to fill jobs here, and had travelled from Britain’s old West Indian colonies to make their lives in the mother country.Life for these families was often t
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