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Anchor Windrush: keep fighting for justice
Over a year on from the eruption of the Windrush scandal, the government is still failing its victims writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
EVEN Deputy Prime Minister David Lidington recently called into question the government’s policy on capping compensation for certain categories of loss for victims of the Windrush scandal.
Presented with the government’s proposed compensation figures on The Andrew Marr Show, he seemed to contradict the Home Office approach to setting compensation amounts, saying: “I think it depends on each individual case and I’m sure if there’s evidence of injustice that is something that home office ministers will look at.”
When asked if it was a disgrace that a victim of the Windrush scandal Albert Thompson could be given just £500 compensation after being denied cancer treatment, Lidington said “clearly on the account you’ve given to me that was a disgrace.”
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