Windrush scandal: 'No cap' on compensation claims

There is "no limit" to the amount of money that could be paid out to victims of the Windrush scandal, the home secretary has said.

Sajid Javid said he hoped the scheme would "right the wrongs" of a "mistake that should never have happened".

Thousands of people were wrongly targeted by the "hostile environment" strategy for illegal immigration.

Many of those affected were people from Caribbean countries who arrived in the UK between 1948 and 1971.

People from other Commonwealth and non-Commonwealth countries who arrived in the UK before 1988 were also affected and are eligible to apply for compensation too, Mr Javid said in a Commons statement.

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