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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12012

1 May 2018
Contents Publication in full By article 24 / 27
NEWS BRIEFS / United kingdom
Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, resigns after scandal involving West Indian workers who came to UK to rebuild country after Second World War

30/04/2018 (Agence Europe)On Sunday 29 April, the British Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, was forced to resign over the so-called Windrush generation scandal and her government's poor management of thousands of West Indian workers who came to Britain from 1948 to the 1970s (Windrush was the name of the first boat that landed near London in 1948). Some of these workers had never been awarded appropriate identity papers and had been threatened with expulsion from the UK, despite having...

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