A suppressed government report into the causes of the Windrush scandal has highlighted that historic immigration laws were designed to reduce the proportion of Black and Asian people living in the UK.
Between 1950-1981, "every single piece of immigration or citizenship legislation was designed at least in part to reduce the number of people with Black or brown skin who were permitted to live and work in the UK", the report said.
The Home Office previously refused to publish the Historical Roots Of The Windrush Scandal report after a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
Earlier this month, a First-Tier Tribunal judgment said the department must disclose the report to the requester, but Labour decided to go further and publish the report on the Government website.
Though the previous Conservative administration went to extraordinary lengths to hide this report, it is important that the public can now access it, not least because it concludes that the scandal was caused by a "failure to recognise that changes in immigration and citizenship law in Britain since 1948 had affected Black people in the UK differently".
"As a result, the experiences of Britain's black communities of the Home Office, of the law, and of life in the UK have been fundamentally different from those of white communities," it reads.
The report confirms something that Black and Asian families around the country, as well as campaigners, have been saying for years and years.
The questions are: what happens next and will anything change for the better?
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