According to a report by The Times newspaper MPs have warned the Home Office against watering down a review into the Windrush scandal after it emerged that sections of it’s report accusing the Whitehall department of being “institutionally racist” had been stripped out.
The delayed review was commissioned after people with a right to live in the UK were wrongfully detained or deported to the Caribbean.
As The Times reported some sources commented that the phrase "institutionally racist" was included in an earlier draft of the Windrush review led by the Inspector of Constabulary, Wendy Williams, but had subsequently been removed.
Labour MP David Lammy, a vocal campaigner over the scandal caused by the department's "hostile environment" policy, demanded that the "truth must be published in full".
He continued: "The Windrush scandal resulted in the systematic deportation and detention of black British citizens by the UK Home Office. The victims' nationality and rights were denied because of the colour of their skin. If this is not institutionally racist, I have no idea what is. It would be an outrage and an insult to the Windrush generation for the independent review to be watered down for political reasons.”
