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Home Secretary Priti Patel
PRITI PATEL’S Home Office should be stripped of responsibility for the Windrush compensation scheme after a “litany of flaws” was discovered by MPs today.
The cross-party Commons home affairs committee said the scheme should be transferred to an independent organisation to increase trust and encourage more applications.
MPs said the scheme’s design contained the same “bureaucratic insensitivities” that led to the scandal, which was a “damning indictment of the Home Office.”
by David Nicholson, Wales reporter
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
Digital ID means the government could track anyone and then limit their speech, movements, finances — and it could get this all wrong, identifying the wrong people for the wrong reasons, as the numerous digital cockups so far demonstrate, warns DYLAN MURPHY