Independent body should run Windrush compensation scheme, Labour says

Systemic mismanagement' by Home Office has led to complaints over delays and low offers to claimants

Labour has called on the government to remove the handling of the much-criticised Windrush compensation scheme from the Home Office so it can be run by a neutral, independent body, after two years of complaints from claimants about delays and low compensation offers.

In a letter to the home secretary, Priti Patel, the shadow home secretary, Nick Thomas-Symonds, said there had been systemic mismanagement" of the unacceptably slow" scheme, and recommended that placing it under an independent body would help restore faith in the process and get compensation quickly to people who have been so appallingly treated".