The Windrush scandal occurred as a direct result of the ‘hostile environment’ environment policy announced by the government in 2012. The scandal became public in 2017 when it emerged that hundreds of Commonwealth citizens had been wrongly detained, deported or denied legal rights by the Home office following the introduction of the ‘hostile environment’ policy. Many of the people caught up in this had arrived as children before 1973. One such case was of an individual whose mother arrived in…