The Windrush fiasco and the troubles with a 2nd Brexit referendum
Political Fix
Financial Times
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to FT Politics, the Financial Times's weekly discussion on what's going on in Westminster. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Sebastian Payne. |
| 0:15.6 | In this episode we'll be discussing the fiasco over the Windrush generation and Britain's |
| 0:20.3 | migration system. |
| 0:21.6 | Plus we'll be chatting over whether a second Brexit referendum |
| 0:24.6 | is in any way a good idea. |
| 0:26.9 | I'm delighted to be joined by George Parker, the FT's political editor, Chief Economics |
| 0:31.3 | commentator Martin Wolf, Deputy Comment editor Miranda Green, |
| 0:34.7 | plus Under Katwala from the British Future Think Tank. |
| 0:37.7 | Thank you all for joining. |
| 0:38.9 | And if you like this episode of FT Politics, |
| 0:41.5 | don't forget to subscribe to all the usual channels to receive it automatically every Saturday morning. |
| 0:47.0 | It has been one of the worst week for Theresa May's government since the general election, a round of reports in the Guardian about the |
| 0:54.7 | status of people from the Windward generation resulted in some questions about |
| 0:58.8 | what is going on with Britain's migration system. Paperwork was destroyed by the home office that gave |
| 1:04.8 | these Caribbean migrants their status within the UK. It's raised a lot of |
| 1:08.9 | questions about whether Theresa May's quote, hostile environment was to blame. |
| 1:13.7 | George Parker, let's begin with unpacking where this story began on Monday. |
| 1:17.8 | So Amelia Gentlemen, an investigative report that The Guardian has been digging into these cases |
| 1:22.4 | and reported |
| 1:23.2 | British citizens who weren't getting health treatment, |
| 1:25.9 | who were being threatened with deportation, who were losing their jobs, |
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