CAMPAIGNING groups from Preston, Manchester and other regions are planning to go to London to call on the government to impose a new Windrush Act.

The local group will attend an Emancipation Day rally in Brixton on Sunday and demand new legislation to bring justice for the Windrush generation and their descendants who had their British citizenship revoked when the scandal first erupted in 2018.

Leading the rally will be Glenda Andrew, who told Lancashire Post that the government needed to realise that the people demanding justice are “not going away.”

“People are being impacted by the Windrush Scandal. So we are asking for a Windrush Act,” she said.

Manchester lawyer, Anthony Brown, will deliver a statement to Buckingham Palace addressed to the Queen, urging her to back the call as Head of the Commonwealth.

A further Act of Parliament is now needed, said campaigners, to restore British citizenship to people from the Caribbean and their descendants who were settled in the UK, and had their citizenship revoked after the former colonies gained independence.

The groups are also demanding that those affected by the Windrush Scandal receive £10,000 each as reparations,in addition to the compensation already owed for the discriminatory legislation that caused them to be targeted.

Anthony Brown, who arrived in the UK from Jamaica as a six-year-old, was threatened with deportation back in 1983.

He is now taking the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, to court for a judicial review of the Windrush scandal as thousands remain impacted years later.

He told the Lancashire Post: “A new Act of Parliament is now needed so that all people who were born as either British subjects prior to 1948 or as citizens of the UK and colonies post-1948 and who had been settled in the UK for a period of 5 years by 1 January 1983, should be treated as having continued to be citizens of the UK and colonies throughout this period irrespective of the impact of any independence legislation passed in relation to their countries of origin.”

He added: “At the moment there is a very high level of refusals when people apply to the Windrush Scheme for citizenship. The Home Office is still enforcing the 2014 hostile environment law because the laws have not changed.

“People are still losing their jobs, or are unable to take up work, or rent a house if they don’t have legal status documents, which many from the Windrush Generation don’t. So, the law needs to change.”