Weekly Economics Podcast: Does the Windrush scandal signal the end of Britain’s ​‘hostile environment’?

Papers destroyed by the Home Office. Forced out of work. Denied cancer treatment. Held in detention. Deported. Those are just a few of the terrible stories we’ve heard about the treatment of the Windrush generation over the past few months.

We’ve had a change of Home Secretary, but will there be a change in policy? The government set up a ​‘Windrush taskforce’ in April – but will it right these wrongs? And what does the ​‘hostile environment’ policy say about the UK’s difficult relationship with its own history?

This week, Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Omar Khan, director of the race equality think tank, the Runnymede Trust, and writer and researcher Maya Goodfellow, who is writing a book about the immigration debate in Britain.

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