Prime minister promises she will listen to individuals’ concerns and ensure no one is deportedTheresa May has apologised to the 12 Caribbean heads of government for the treatment of Windrush citizens and promised that no one would be deported. The prime minister told a meeting with Caribbean leaders she wanted to dispel any impression that her government was “in some sense clamping down on Commonwealth citizens, particularly those from the Caribbean”. The first group arrived on the ship MV Empire Windrush in June 1948. Speaking earlier in the day, the Cabinet Office minister, David Lidington, blamed officials for May’s original refusal to meet the Caribbean leaders. Lidington also said the government was still not certain whether any Windrush-era citizens in the UK had been wrongly deported, reiterating that their treatment “had gone badly wrong”.

Source: The Guardian April 17, 2018 07:36 UTC