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Windrush anniversary debate: What does Britain think about immigration?
Two years after Brexit what does Britain think about immigration? It was an issue that defined the referendum, and in the intervening months it has stayed high on the agenda. So while the scandal of how Windrush immigrants were treated by the Home Office saw the resignation of the Home Secretary, and discussions about the…
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FactCheck: How easy will it be for EU citizens to stay in Britain?
People will have to answer three “simple” questions and pay £65 to be allowed to carry on living in Britain after we leave the EU. But is the process really as simple as it looks?
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Britain’s Windrush veterans: the battle to be British
It’s been 70 years since 492 passengers disembarked from the Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks. Invited to Britain as part of the first generation of workers from the Caribbean, some went on to serve in the armed forces. Over the decades they served in conflicts around the world as British citizens – or so they thought.…
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The working poor: Britain’s families living on the breadline
Work is the best route out of poverty – it’s a slogan popular with politicians both left and right for the past two decades. But as the country surges towards record numbers of people in work – the number of those in work and in poverty too is also rising. According to the Institute for…
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Bernard-Henri Levy: ‘Great Britain with Brexit will become Little England’
The French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy says Britain is at the intellectual heart of Europe and needs to stay there. And he’s putting his views on stage. Last Exit Before Brexit depicts a speechwriter who has to give a keynote address at a conference about Brexit and can’t manage to write it.
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Joan Armatrading: ‘I’ve been here since I was seven and Britain is home, although I love the idea of being born in the West Indies’
Born in the Caribbean and brought up in Birmingham, Joan Armatrading was the first black female British singer-songwriter to have international success. Now she’s releasing her 21st studio album and talks about where her love of music started.
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Grenfell: inquiry into Britain’s worst civil disaster in 21st century opens with moving testimony
It was a heart-rending and very human start to the official inquiry into the disaster. The family and friends of all 72 of those who lost their lives in the Grenfell Tower fire have the opportunity to pay tribute to them. The first few were heard today.
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Is Britain cashing in on the benefits of Jamaican culture?
Hundreds of Jamaicans were among those to arrive on the Empire Windrush 70 years ago. But while the political controversy over the Windrush generation has raged, the Caribbean island is at the heart of another storm about the way cultural exports are treated by Britain and the rest of the world. From music to food,…
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‘I love Britain, it’s home’: two young women tell us about life in the shadow of Windrush
The Windrush scandal has brought the UK’s immigration system into the spotlight. But it’s not just those who came over to Britain decades ago who are concerned. Two young women who were born in the Caribbean but have lived here since they were children talk to us about how it feels to not be officially…
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Britain urges US to stick with Iran nuclear deal
Britain has urged the United States not to abandon the nuclear deal with Iran, after Israel released documents claiming Tehran had lied “big time” about its nuclear weapons programme. Boris Johnson said the deal was still vitally important to keep Iran’s activities in check. But Donald Trump has signalled he could walk away from the…
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Britain leans on former colonies to alleviate NHS crisis amid Windrush scandal
At the same time as the Windrush generation’s disenfranchisement, Britain is undertaking a nursing recruitment drive in the Caribbean to help alleviate the one in 10 nurses who left the NHS in England and Wales – but at what cost?
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Windrush Generation: The scandal that shook Britain explained and debated in a Channel 4 News Special
Watch live as the Windrush generation, campaigners and politicians discuss the scandal that shook the UK – as thousands of British citizens were faced with deportation.
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In Kingston, Jamaicans tell Channel 4 News of their anger at Britain’s ‘betrayal’
Channel 4 News correspondent Symeon Brown reports from Jamaica.
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Windrush: The man who fought to return home to Britain
Some may now get compensation – but still the stories of injustice visited on the Windrush generation keep emerging, like Joe Robinson, who arrived here from Jamaica at the age of six. When he went back there for the first time, to celebrate his 50th birthday, he was told he had no proof to return…
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David Lammy: ‘Do we need to send a message that Britain is cruel?’
Jon Snow is joined by the Labour MP David Lammy, who has written to the Prime Minister demanding an independent review into the government’s immigration policy.
