Twenty-five MPs tell home secretary ‘urgent reflection’ is needed after report on origins of Windrush scandal

Twenty-five black, Asian and minority ethnic MPs have written to the home secretary telling her that the framing of Britain’s immigration legislation “cannot be uncoupled from racism and the exclusion of people of colour”.

The MPs were responding to the publication last month of a previously suppressed Home Office report on the origins of the Windrush scandal, which highlighted how three decades of British immigration legislation between 1950 and 1981 were “designed at least in part to reduce the number of people with black or brown skin who were permitted to live and work in the UK”.