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Commemorating a more inclusive history of Britain can bring us…

London’s Overground train lines have never before had the attention of the iconic underground. The tube map was a popular hit straightaway in the 1930s, a design classic copied the world over. The Overground lines have kept a low profile on the map’s periphery, with its 114 stations hiding behind…

Talking about our history needn’t spark culture war

NOBODY knows whether Nigel Farage will try to play a prominent role in the next General Election. The former Ukip and Brexit Party leader is currently taking a break from electoral politics, to build his profile as a broadcaster both in Britain and America. Yet Farage has found an unusual…

Windrush flag raised in 200 locations across Britain to mark…

MAJOR events will be held across Britain this week to mark the 75th anniversary of the arrival of Windrush on Thursday (22), a statement said. As part of the celebrations, the Windrush flag is being raised in more than 200 locations across England and Wales, including at the Houses of…

King Charles hosts reception to mark 75th anniversary of ‘Windrush’…

KING CHARLES held a reception at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday (14) to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the start of the arrival of the 'Windrush generation' of post-war migrants to Britain from the Caribbean. The Empire Windrush ship docked in London in June 1948, bringing the first of hundreds of…

Windrush 75: Stitching the story into British history

“IT has been an extraordinary journey,” said Alford Gardner, once a 21-year-old former Royal Air Force (RAF) serviceman returning to seek work in Britain and now navigating, in his mid-90s, becoming a crucial living link to an iconic moment in the making of modern Britain. Gardner is one of the…

Britain’s hostile environment policy ‘disproportionately affect’ black and Asian people,…

A government review into Home Office’s hostile environment policies has revealed that it had disproportionately affected people of colour in UK. The report said that Indians, Pakistanis, Nigerians and Bangladeshis were most likely to be affected by these policies rather than Albanians and Brazilians who are the top five nationalities…

‘Windrush lessons will go unlearned for now’

“I WAS clear when Wendy Williams published her Windrush Lessons Learned review that I would listen and act. I will be accepting the recommendations she has made in full”. That was what home secretary Priti Patel told the Commons three years ago. But last week, her successor, Suella Braverman, withdrew…

UK under fire over retreat from Windrush scandal reforms

Britain's government came under withering criticism Friday after retreating from reforms it had promised to prevent a repeat of the "Windrush" scandal affecting black immigrants. Home Secretary Suella Braverman said that three of the changes previously promised were unnecessary. Baroness Floella Benjamin, a former TV presenter who chairs the government's…

Racism ‘systemic’ in Britain: UN experts

Racism is "structural, institutional and systemic" in Britain, a group of United Nations experts concluded on Friday, warning that people of African descent were witnessing the "erosion of their fundamental rights". Public spending cuts have exacerbated racial discrimination and intolerance, the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African…

Windrush 75th anniversary sees huge support from British society: ‘Like…

The 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush in the UK, which marked a key moment in the country's history of migration, is a "Diamond Jubilee for modern, diverse Britain", according to campaigners. Voices from across British society – from sport and culture to politics, faith and business…

Priest of Indian heritage appointed Church of England’s first racial…

A former Barbados high commissioner of Indian heritage has been appointed the first racial justice director of the Church of England. Anglican priest Guy Hewitt will assume office in November as the head of the Church’s racial justice unit, set up following the recommendations of the Archbishops’ Anti-Racism Taskforce report.…

Everyone living in the UK must have free access to…

LONDON mayor Sadiq Khan on Wednesday (22) urged the government to provide free NHS care for everyone living in the UK to prevent another potential Windrush scandal.  On Windrush Day (June 22), Khan called for an end to the NHS charging regulations for migrants which impacts undocumented Londoners as they…

UK immigration laws from 1950 to 1981 were designed in…

A leaked government paper has revealed that 'racist immigration legislation' over 30 years, framed to reduce the UK’s non-white population, led to the Windrush scandal, according to a media report.  The 52-page analysis, in a Home Office commissioned paper, by an unnamed historian, describes how “the British Empire depended on…

No change in Home Office culture can lead to Windrush-like…

A report has warned that no change in Home Office culture may lead to more Windrush-like incidents, a media report said.  The report by Wendy Williams published on Thursday (31), who was appointed to advise the Home Office on how to make changes, has said that there was a lack…

Bina Mehta among inspirational women recognised at the GG2 Leadership…

A NUMBER of remarkable women were amongst the winners at the annual GG2 Leadership and Diversity Awards, held at the Park Plaza hotel on Tuesday (8). Bina Mehta took home the coveted GG2 Hammer Award, presented to a BAME person who has smashed the proverbial glass ceiling, for her rise…

The truth about the Windrush Compensation Scheme

Some people from the Caribbean, or countries such as India, Bangladesh or Pakistan who settled lawfully in the UK before 1988, faced problems because they did not have the correct documents to show their legal status. As a result, they may have found it hard to demonstrate their right to…

UK slammed over Windrush compensation delays

THOUSANDS of Black British immigrants have suffered "truly shocking" delays in government compensation after a scandal erupted four years ago over wrongful deportations, MPs said Wednesday (24). The government insisted it was serious about processing claims for restitution from members of the "Windrush" generation. But the cross-party Home Affairs Committee…

Raducanu’s victory is a glimpse of Britain’s demographic future

EMMA RADUCANU'S US Open victory is above all else an astonishing sporting triumph. To seize such a glittering prize by playing a flawless tournament shows an almost limitless potential to become a sporting legend. How far that is fulfilled is a future unknown, but she has already guaranteed herself a…

‘Ignorance isn’t an excuse’, NHS blog post on racism tells…

A blog post on the NHS Leadership Academy website has provided anti-racism tips, and advised white staff to read about white privilege, The Telegraph reported. The post suggested reading an article on white privilege by the US activist Peggy McIntosh, followed by a discussion of “whiteness” in author Robin DiAngelo’s…

Windrush compensation scheme process ‘is too complex’ for victims, report…

A NEW report has alleged that the Windrush generation is being failed by the UK home office as the process in the compensation scheme 'is too complex' for victims, with inadequate capacity, the Guardian reported. The report by the parliament’s public accounts committee published on Tuesday (27) found that some…

First Windrush monument to be unveiled at Waterloo station next…

FIRST Windrush monument which includes bronze statues of families standing on their suitcases and stilt-walking figures is expected to be unveiled at Waterloo station next year, reported The Guardian. Ideas of artists-Basil Watson, Thomas J Price, Valda Jackson and Jeannette Ehlers were shortlisted for the proposed monument. They all are…

‘Racism is systemic in England, UK government breaching UN’s anti-racism…

ENGLAND is "systemically racist" and the UK government is in breach of a United Nations (UN) treaty designed to eradicate racial discrimination, a recent report claimed on Wednesday (14), adding that minority ethnic groups in the country face sustained disparities across health, the criminal justice system, education, employment, immigration and…

Javid returns to the centre of UK politics

IT WOULD be ironic if Sajid Javid, who is back from the political wilderness as Matt Hancock’s replacement as health secretary, and Rishi Sunak, who succeeded him 16 months ago as chancellor, fight it out one day for the top job in British politics. Asian vs Asian for the post…

Johnson’s former senior black aide accuses Tories of stoking “culture…

PRIME MINISTER Boris Johnson's former race adviser, Samuel Kasumu, said he feels the government is stoking a “bitter culture war” that could lead to another “Jo Cox, Stephen Lawrence and Windrush scandal” - referring to the murder of a Labour MP, a black teenager and discrimination by the Home Office…

Home Office failed to compensate Windrush victims quickly enough, investigation…

A critical National Audit Office (NAO) investigation has revealed that the Home Office failed to compensate the victims of the Windrush scandal 'quickly enough'. The report found out that the Home Office struggled to encourage the expected number of applicants to come forward, reported The Guardian. The NAO investigation attempted…

Dealing with illegal immigrants

  By Amit Roy LAST week I pointed out the potential for an Indian Windrush scandal because of a new immigration agreement that was signed between the UK and Indian governments. “The agreement will enhance and accelerate the processes to return Indian nationals with no legal right to stay in…

Experts urge targeted inoculation of vulnerable ethnic minority groups in…

EXPERTS have urged the UK government to reconsider its coronavirus vaccine allocation strategy, and called for a targeted inoculation of vulnerable ethnic minority groups. A commentary published by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (JRSM), a group of experts has warned that the UK’s 'colour-blind' approach puts ethnic…

Kololo Hill: Telling the tale of Asian expulsion from Uganda

by LAUREN CODLING A NEW book exploring the expulsion of Uganda Asians in the 1970s was inspired by the “terrifying” prospect of being forced to leave your home country for another, its author has revealed. Neema Shah’s debut novel Kololo Hill is a fictional account about the expulsion of Asians…

UK overhauls Windrush compensation scheme; minimum payment increases to £10,000

BRITAIN has announced an overhaul of the compensation scheme for victims of its clampdown on the 'Windrush' generation of immigrants, with increased and faster pay-outs. The Home Office will start to issue some offers of preliminary payments this week and will begin making payments under the new rules from 1 January…

Deportations to Jamaica

By Amit Roy IT IS hard to fault the home secretary Priti Patel for wanting to deport Ja­maican nationals con­victed of murder and rape charges, but some 23 received last-minute reprieves last week. The Black Lives Matter movement says it does not condone crime, but Jamaicans who grew up in…

‘Total transformation’: Priti Patel promises ‘fairer, more compassionate’ Home Office

By S Neeraj Krishna PRITI PATEL has pledged to make all Home Office staff undergo training on Britain’s “history of migration and race” as part of a “comprehensive improvement plan” initiated following the scathing Windrush scandal report. The home secretary said she was determined to make up for the Home…

New Lib Dem leader vows ‘to listen and make changes’

  By Sir Ed Davey Leader of the Liberal Democrats IT’S AN incredibly humbling thing to be elected leader of a party I joined 30 years ago. I joined the Liberal Democrats back then because of what it stood for – fairness and equal­ity, social justice and in­ternationalism. I joined…

Priti Patel promises reforms in Home Office after the Windrush…

BRITISH home secretary Priti Patel on Tuesday (21) promised major reforms in the Home Office as she announced an action plan in response to the Wendy Williams Windrush lessons learned review. The minister announced omprehensive training  Home Office staff, reconciliation events with the victims of the scandal and diverse shortlists…

Priti Patel to lead cross-government working group to ‘right the…

THE British government said on Monday (22) it was determined to "right the wrongs" of its treatment of Britons of Caribbean origin who were detained or deported as illegal immigrants. Home Secretary Priti Patel and Bishop Derek Webley, a senior church leader, will chair a cross-government working group to address…

BAME voluntary organisations led the way

By Harris Bokhari [caption id="attachment_91900" align="alignleft" width="300"] Harris Bokhari (Photo credit: Alastair Fyfe)[/caption] The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed some of the pressing racial inequalities in our society. BAME individuals have been over-represented; in Covid-19 related deaths; working in professions which put them at greater risk of contracting the virus; and…

Anti-racist poetry video featuring UK’s migrant key workers trends online

A moving poetry video featuring migrant key workers in the UK is trending on social media. The concept video attempts to contrast the praise the workers are receiving now, as they help the country battle Covid-19, with past instances of xenophobia. 'You Clap For Me Now' -- written by Darren Smith and…

Home Office’s ‘thoughtlessness and ignorance’ about race criticised

By Sunder Katwala Director, British Future IN NORMAL times, the Windrush Lessons Learned report would have dominated the national news agenda for days, being among the most ex­traordinary dissections of a major department that any government has had to publish. Home secretary Priti Patel published the inde­pendent review within a…

Suing Home Office may not be in Rutnam’s best interests

By Amit Roy SIR PHILIP RUTNAM, who resigned last Saturday (29) as permanent secretary at the Home Office after clashing with home secretary Priti Patel, said he would be “issuing a claim against the Home Office for constructive dismissal”. But is this wise? His critics – and they appear to…

Paying the price of saying, ‘No, minister’

By Amit Roy SHOULD Sir Philip Rutnam be sacked as permanent secretary at the home office, the most senior civil servant in the department, for allegedly frustrating Priti Patel and previous home secretaries? To be sure, he seems to have a problem with Priti, who is accused of “bullying” senior…

Allies back Priti Patel, who is accused of bullying at…

PRITI PATEL has been accused of bullying and creating an “atmosphere of fear” in the Home Office. Reports said the home secretary was engaged in a “toxic clash at the top” and wanted to “oust her most senior civil servant”. Sources in the department alleged that Patel bullied and belittled…

Cabinet reshuffle confirms diversity is new normal

  By Sunder Katwala Director of British Future THIS was expected to be a quiet reshuffle. So, the brutal Valentine’s Eve political power play which saw chancellor Sajid Javid crash out of government took Westminster by surprise. Javid had been the only Cabinet minister to receive a public commitment that…

Honours show how migrant communities make Britain thrive

by HARRIS BOKHARI OBE National board member, Prince’s Trust Mosaic Initiative Last month's general election not only saw the most diverse parliament ever elected but also gave the Government the mandate to reform the immigration system for the first time in decades. Despite this New Year’s honours list seeing another…

Asian heritage cabinet ministers have a chance to change UK…

  By Barnie Choudhury Former BBC journalist FOR the past 20 years, I have been resolute that I would return to karate. I gave up soon after our daughter was born, and the once-toned muscles of a former British champion went to mush. Perhaps writing it down, in black and…

Child citizenship fee ruled unlawful as activists claim “fight goes…

by LAUREN CODLING A £1,000 Home Office fee for children to register as British citizens was yesterday (12) ruled unlawful by the High Court, as activist groups claimed the “fight for justice goes on”. The costs “failed to have regard to the best interests” of children affected, a judge ruled…

Experts sceptical over Johnson’s plan to create new immigration department

British prime minister Boris Johnson's plan to set up a new department for borders and immigration has some experts fearing that the reach of the hostile environment would be expanded. Johnson is said to be formulating proposals to crate an immigration and visa system separate from the Home Office. While…

Turbine Hall sculpture is ‘a critique of slave trade’

AMERICAN ARTIST WALKER ‘DOES NOT SHY AWAY FROM COMPLEX HISTORIES’ by AMIT ROY THE American artist has taken the idea of the joyous Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace and subverted it to create Fons Americanus, by way of a scathing critique of the slave trade in which America and…

Patel announces fund to tackle drug gangs and for safer…

  HOME secretary Priti Patel said today (1) the UK government will end free movement and introduce an Australian-style points-based immigration system once the country leaves the European Union. Addressing the Conservative Party's annual conference in Manchester, Patel said her Brexit mission is "to end the free movement of people…

English test scam: Home Office rushed to penalise international students,…

THE Home Office has been accused of rushing to penalise international students of cheating in English language test without checking the reliability of evidence, parliament's spending watchdog concluded in a report published on Wednesday (18). Comparing the way the department treated the nearly 30,000 international students accused of cheating to…

Home Office ‘profiteering’ from rise in immigration fees

THE Home Office has been accused by critics of making a profit from soaring immigration fees that delivered a £500 million surplus last year. Charges levied on thousands of people for British residency and citizenship have risen in the past five years, with profits increasing by 91 per cent. Applicants…

Sunder Katwala: New leader must reset the UK’s immigration policy

by SUNDER KATWALA Director, British Future WE WILL have a new prime minister in a fortnight, and Theresa May’s successor will inherit the conundrum of the Brexit stalemate. Whether the overwhelming favourite, Boris Johnson, or his rival Jeremy Hunt wins the Conservative leadership contest, their first 100 days will be…

Home Office to start making Windrush payments

THE HOME OFFICE announced on Thursday (4) that it will start make payments as part of the Windrush scandal compensation scheme. In a written statement to Parliament, home secretary Sajid Javid said he was committed to providing appropriate compensation promptly. Javid announced: “The government deeply regrets what has happened to…

Lessons on migration and empire should be made compulsory in…

LESSONS on migration, belonging and empire should be made mandatory in every secondary school in the country, said a race equality thinktank. In a report, the Runnymede Trust said it wanted to see a new approach to teaching on the subject in schools. Although the subject was covered in various…

UK marks National Windrush Day to honour migrants

The UK on Saturday (22) marked the first-ever National Windrush Day in honour of the Windrush generation of migrants who were brought to Britain to address labour shortages in the wake of the World War II. The Windrush generation refers to citizens of former British colonies who arrived in the…

Hundreds more Indians made British citizens under Windrush scheme

UK home secretary Sajid Javid has issued another personal apology for the Windrush scandal, involving migrants being wrongly denied their British citizenship rights, as a latest official update revealed that hundreds more Indians were caught up in the row. The Windrush generation refers to citizens of former British colonies who…

Theresa May failed to tackle her ‘burning injustices’ pledge

by RITHIKA SIDDHARTHA PRIME minister Theresa May's successor must carry forward her unfulfilled commitment to tackle racial inequality in the UK, a leading Asian peer and a think-tank director have said. On her first day as prime minister, May addressed the nation on the steps of her Downing Street office,…

Sajid Javid: Rise of a British Asian leader

SAJID JAVID, is the face of a modem, multicultural and meritocratic Britain, writes Rithika Siddhartha. One of the first crises he tackled since becoming home secretary was the Windrush scandal, which saw members of the Caribbean community facing an uncertain future in the UK despite legally living in this country…

UK watchdog to probe overseas student visa row

The UK's National Audit Office (NAO) has launched an investigation into the government's handling of a visa row involving thousands of overseas students, many of them from India. The NAO confirmed the investigation on Friday, days after a migrant group lobbying the UK Home Office in favour of the students,…

Windrush: Minister apologises for data blunder in compensation scheme

IMMIGRATION minister Caroline Nokes has apologised "unreservedly" to the Windrush generation after about 500 private email addresses were shared with recepients of a mailing list for the compensation scheme. The Home Office had sent information to Windrush migrants in a way that meant their email addresses could be seen by…

Sajid Javid sets aside £200 million to compensate Windrush scandal…

The UK government on Wednesday (3) announced that it was setting aside £200 million to compensate historic immigrants from Commonwealth countries like India wrongly denied their citizenship rights in the UK. UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid told the House of Commons that while there was no cap on the amount…

UK Parliament body demands Windrush-hit Indians not be ignored

A UK Parliament committee on Wednesday (6) demanded that the government must not “simply ignore” Indians and other Commonwealth citizens caught up in the Windrush scandal, involving historic immigrants wrongly denied their citizenship rights in the UK. In its report at the end of a review into the scandal, the…

Changes urged as poll finds rise in support for migrants

by LAUREN CODLING NEGATIVE responses to immigration have shifted, research has found, as an expert said media coverage of the Windrush scandal and Brexit could have contributed to the change in attitudes. Statistics from Ipsos Mori, for the BBC Crossing Divides series, have revealed that almost half of people (48…

Jeremy Hunt vows action on forced marriage fees

Foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt has ordered an investigation into allegations that victims of forced marriages were asked to pay Foreign Office officials to rescue them. Hunt said he would “get to the bottom” of the scandal, revealed by The Times. “I have asked officials to give me proper advice on…

Tug-of-war over migration proposals must be solved

BY SUNDER KATWALA, Director, British Future THE UK government’s long-awaited immigration white paper, published days before Christmas, aimed to set out the framework for a new post-Brexit immigration system. But the future direction of immigration policy is now a little less clear after its publication than it was before it;…

UK India ties moved forward smoothly in 2018

The UK and India pledged to work closely post-Brexit as the bilateral ties moved forward smoothly in 2018, a year in which India scored a major diplomatic victory when a British court ordered the extradition of liquor baron Vijay Mallya wanted back home for alleged bank fraud. The year 2018…

Corbyn calls for colonial history to be taught in schools

THE British Empire and colonialism in India should be taught in UK schools, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Thursday (11). Corbyn urged the curriculum change, referring to its importance in wake of the Windrush Scandal involving Commonwealth citizens being wrongly denied their citizenship rights in the UK. "In the…

Opinions divided on May’s migration proposals

by LAUREN CODLING THE prime minister and the home secretary have unveiled post-Brexit immigration proposals on Tuesday (2) as the Conservative government seeks to commit to lower and “sustainable” levels of migration after Britain leaves the EU next year. Workers from the EU will need visas to enter Britain, which…

VISA VICTORY FOR MIGRANT WORKERS

The Prime minister and the home secretary have unveiled post-Brexit immigration proposals on Tuesday (2) as the Conservative government seeks to commit to lower and “sustainable” levels of migration after Britain leaves the EU next year. Workers from the EU will need visas to enter Britain, which will be issued…

Report Shows Erosion of Public Faith in Government’s Pledges

By Sarwar Alam There is a “shocking” lack of trust in the government to manage immigration with four out of 10 Britons feeling multi- culturism has undermined British culture, according to a new survey. Thinktank British Future and anti-prejudice campaigners HOPE not hate, conducted the largest-ever public consultation on immigration,…

Indians third largest group affected by Windrush scandal

Indians have emerged as the third-largest group affected by the Windrush immigration scandal involving Commonwealth nationals being wrongly denied their citizenship rights in Britain. The Windrush immigration scandal concerns people who were wrongly detained, denied legal rights, threatened with deportation and in many cases wrongly deported from the UK by…

Britain apologises to migrants removed in Windrush scandal

Britain said it would formally apologise to 18 members of the "Windrush generation" who were forced to leave or detained because they were not issued with documents when they came to the country from the Caribbean after World War Two. The scandal damaged the authority of prime minister Theresa May,…

Home Office suspends bank checks

THE Home Office is to suspend immigration checks on thousands of bank accounts following the Windrush scandal. The department is contacting banks and building societies to instruct them to re­duce the scope of the investigations. Since January, banks have been re­quired to conduct quarterly checks on 70 million UK current…

HARRY AND MEGHAN NEW FACE OF BRITAIN

by Amit Roy Royal couple reflect modern and diverse society THE new Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who are now seen widely as symbols of a modern, multicultural Britain following Meghan Markle’s marriage to Prince Harry last Saturday (19), are likely to undertake a tour of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh…

Avoiding Windrush II

by LAUREN CODLING UK MINISTERS should introduce an annual migration report based on a public consultation, Yvette Cooper MP, the chair of the powerful Home Affairs Select Committee, has said, as the Conservative government grapples with reducing the number of immigrants arriving in the UK each year. Labour MP Cooper,…

Sadiq wants end to ‘new Windrush scandal’

THE mayor of London urged the British govern­ment on Monday (14) to waive more than £1,000 worth of citizenship applications fees to teenag­ers who do not have immigration status in the UK, despite living in the country for most of their lives. In what Sadiq Khan referred to as a…

Of (India) Club and country

by Amit Patel HISTORIC ENGLAND IN ROW OVER LONDON ‘INSTITUTION’ THE property company which is planning to de­molish the India Club in the Strand in London and convert it into a fancy hotel will locate a lavatory in the corner of the restaurant that has been oc­cupied for decades by portraits…

Learning election lessons

by Amit Roy RELIEF FOR THE TORIES BUT LABOUR ‘SHOULD HAVE DONE BETTER’ IT GOES almost without saying that it is risky to extrapolate the results of a general election from local ones, whether that is in India or in the UK. Nevertheless, the assembly elections in In­dia’s south Indian…

Asian migrants fight deportation from UK

By Lauren Codling MORE than 1,000 highly skilled migrants in the UK, including professionals from India and Pakistan, are at risk of deportation, it has emerged. Teachers, lawyers, doctors and engineers seeking indefinite leave to remain (ILR) in Britain are facing being sent back to the country of their origin…

Time for Javid to push the reset button on immigration

[caption id="attachment_38415" align="alignleft" width="151"] by SUNDER KATWALADirector, British Future[/caption] SOMETIMES, the political feels personal. “That could have been me, my mum and dad,” Sajid Javid told the Sunday Telegraph last Sunday (29) of his anger at the government’s treatment of the Windrush generation. By Monday (30) morning, following Amber Rudd’s…

Indian professionals challenge UK government in court over visas

Scores of Indian doctors, teachers, entrepreneurs and other professionals are challenging the UK government in court over being denied the right to live and work in Britain. The professionals, brought together under the banner of the Highly Skilled Migrants group, were back opposite Parliament Square in London today (2) to…

Corbyn outlines Labour’s strategy on immigration and ties with India

by LAUREN CODLING OPPOSITION leader Jeremy Corbyn has said a Labour government would not set “arbitrary targets” on migration, adding that they would separate student numbers from immigration figures. In an exclusive interview with Eastern Eye last week, Corbyn also said it was an “economical imperative" that the system to…

Home secretary Sajid promises immigration reforms after scandals

Britain's new home secretary pledged to create a "fair and humane immigration" system hours after being appointed as he tried to move beyond a scandal over moves to deport elderly legal immigrants that has rocked the government. Prime minister Theresa May yesterday appointed Sajid Javid to replace Amber Rudd, who…