Theresa May makes an acute U-turn to deal with her UK "Dreamers" issues..

Theresa May dramatically U-turned today and said she will hold talks with Caribbean leaders about the treatment of Britain’s Windrush generation of immigrants.

Leaders attending a Commonwealth summit in London this week had been told the Prime Minister would not formally discuss the plight of those who have lost their everyday rights as Britons.But Downing Street has now said that Mrs May will meet her counterparts - saying she had only personally become aware of the request this morning.

No10 also said the premier 'regretted' the treatment of the Windrush generation and new Home Office guidance on their treatment would be published later.The shift came as International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt admitted the government must do a 'better job' in dealing with issue.

Ministers are under pressure to end the ‘inhumane’ betrayal of migrants who came here with their parents after the Second World War and never became naturalised British citizens. Tens of thousands who arrived as children from the Caribbean are said to have been ‘treated like criminals’.

The Commonwealth heads of government meeting is being held in London this week and Guy Hewitt, High Commissioner for Barbados, told the Guardian: ‘We did make a request to the summit team for a meeting to be held between the Prime Minister and the Commonwealth Caribbean heads of government, and regrettably they have advised us that that is not possible.’

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/10/denied-free-nhs-cancer-care-left-die-home-office-commonwealth

When Albert Thompson went for his first radiotherapy session for prostate cancer in November he says he was surprised to be taken aside by a hospital administrator and told that unless he could produce a British passport he would be charged £54,000 for the treatment.

Thompson has lived in London for 44 years, having arrived from Jamaica as a teenager, and although he has worked as a mechanic and paid taxes for more than three decades, the Home Office is disputing his eligibility to remain.
Official suspicion about his immigration status led to him being evicted last summer, and he was homeless for three weeks. His disputed status has also led to free healthcare being denied. Because he has no savings and no way of paying £54,000, he says he is not receiving the cancer treatment he needs.


The 63-year-old, who asked for his real name not to be printed on legal advice, is another victim of an unfolding scandal around the treatment by the Home Office of a group of people who arrived in the UK as children from Commonwealth countries. This cohort grew up believing themselves to be British, only to discover in a rapidly hardening immigration climate that they need documentary proof of their right to be here, which many do not have.