Editorial: That only 36 people have received payments is unacceptable when so many suffered so much for so long
Since the UK government first apologised for the Windrush scandal in April 2018, 8,000 people have been granted new documents that prove they live in the UK legally. Yet in the 10 months since it was set up, only 36 people have received any money from a scheme set up to compensate them for harm caused by their having been wrongly classified as illegal immigrants. The discrepancy is troubling.
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