Campaigner calls for judge-led public inquiry into Windrush scandal

<p>Victims of other injustices are treated better, says founder of ‘bittersweet’ Windrush Day</p><p>A founder of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/jan/25/bank-holiday-celebrate-windrush-generation">Windrush Day</a> has called for a public inquiry into the scandal amid this year’s “bittersweet” celebrations of Black Britons and their contribution to national life.</p><p>Patrick Vernon, who campaigned for the national day for nearly a decade before the government adopted it, said the<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/windrush-scandal"> </a>mistreatment, detention and removal of Black Britons wrongly accused of being in the UK illegally had not been treated seriously enough.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/22/campaigner-calls-for-judge-led-public-inquiry-into-windrush-scandal">Continue reading...</a>