Caroline Nokes MP: Priti Patel risks forgetting the lessons of Windrush
RAMP Principal Caroline Nokes MP was featured in the Times Red Box on 19th March 2021.
In her foreword to the Government’s response to Wendy Williams’ Windrush Review, the Home Secretary wrote: “My ambition is to build a fairer, more compassionate Home Office that puts people first and sees the ‘face behind the case’”. Those words are barely six months old but there is a real risk that, as the Government prepares to announce sweeping changes to the way the UK supports refugees, some of the lessons from the Windrush scandal have already been forgotten.
There is no doubt that there are sensible changes to the UK’s asylum system that could and should be made to make it more efficient and more humane. But decisions over the last six months—whether to house people in unused Ministry of Defence sites with no…