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THE Home Office signed up to a legally binding action plan today to address its failures to comply with the law during the Windrush scandal.
The initiative follows a ruling by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) last November that ministers broke equality law when setting its “hostile environment” policy.
The policy, introduced by Theresa May in 2012 when she was home secretary, was intended to deter illegal immigrants from remaining in Britain.
It led to hundreds of members of the “Windrush generation” who legally came to Britain from the Caribbean in the decades following the second world war being wrongfully detained and denied their rights.
THE last word is never uttered on the vexed question of policing in 21st-century Britain.
We have a long history of riots, disturbances, insurrections and demonstrations in which the public discussion is continually diverted from the substantive issues at stake the repeal of the Corn Laws, the demand for a People’s Charter of democratic rights, the right to strike, the right to a job, against nuclear weapons and imperialist wars, against the imposition of the poll tax, anger at deaths in the hands of the police and so on.
The temper of the crowd and the tactical disposition of the police are always factors in determining what happens on the day while the attempt by authority always buttressed by an obedient and servile media to frame the principal issue as one of public order is always present.
Editorial: Policing scandals strengthen the case against authoritarian legislation Police outside New Scotland Yard in London as people protest against the The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, on March 14, 2021
SCANDAL after scandal is hitting the Metropolitan Police.
It is not alone in this of course: its political masters are entangled in a web of sleaze allegations. The “nothing to see here” act, from David Cameron’s Greensill lobbying through the public money made available to a lover of the current Prime Minister when he was mayor of London, is wearing thin.
Ministers believe there are no political consequences to their wrongdoing and seldom bother to make their denials sound plausible.
A BACKLASH over the government’s “divisive” race report escalated today after experts, identified as stakeholders, said they were “never consulted” and the PM’s top black adviser quit.
Two historians said they were “horrified” today to find their names included on a list of stakeholders thanked for giving evidence to the widely condemned report.
Stephen Bourne, who has published books about the history of Britain’s black community, claims he was “manipulated” into being involved with the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities’ 258-page report.
Published on Wednesday, the report concluded that Britain was no longer a country where the system is deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities, sparking a fierce backlash from MPs, trade unions and equality campaigners.