The Windrush scandal makes me fear for the rights of EU citizens after Brexit

Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A series of openly hostile policies have been introduced in recent years that are impacting communities right across the country – from the discriminatory Right to Rent scheme and the prohibitive cost of applying for visas and citizenship, to children being denied free school meals because of their parents’ immigration status. The government is currently facing the unprecedented task of registering more than three million EU citizens living in the UK, which is by far the biggest change in immigration status for a generation. David Lammy calls to scrap caps on Windrush compensation If just 5 per cent of all eligible EU applicants struggle to apply or are rejected for their settled status, we could see 175,000 additional people living in the UK without status. The government has already failed the Windrush generation, it’s pricing out young people from claiming their citizenship and, worryingly, is on the verge of failing EU citizens who live here too.