Theresa May’s pre-Windrush policies caused mental distress for Black Britons, finds study
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Former Prime Minister Theresa May’s so-called hostile environment policies, which helped trigger the Windrush scandal, worsened the mental health of Black Caribbean people across the country, a damning new study has highlighted.
The decline in mental health for Black Britons comes as the Mayor of London calls on the government to speed up access to the Windrush compensation scheme by reducing the burden of proof on claimants and to help victims with losses to private pensions and future earnings, which the scheme doesn’t currently do.
In a letter sent to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday,, Sadiq Khan wrote:“Although there is still more to do, your response to the Post Office scandal has been an example of how quickly the government can respond to correct injustices.
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