Campaigners have said there are ‘significant parallels’ between the UK’s Windrush scandal and LGBT+ asylum seekers today. The Windrush scandal exposed how British officials mistreated a generation of people who came to the country, particularly from Caribbean countries.
The scandal broke in 2018 and takes its name from the ‘Windrush generation’, named in turn after the ship the Empire Windrush which brought one of the first groups of West Indian migrants to the UK in 1948.