Now n-word found in official immigration documents

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Officials outlining two separate immigration tribunal decisions, each concerning the right of an asylum seeker to remain in the UK, refer to the applicants’ ethnicity as “N*****d”. It exposes the impact of generations of dehumanising government policies, used in decisions that have the potential to have a devastating impact on the lives of Black and minority ethnic people in this country.” Ms Johnson demanded a “full and thorough review” of all government documents, saying she is “not confident” that all slurs have been removed from official papers. “We do not tolerate racist, homophobic, sexist or any similarly unacceptable language in any form, including in Government documents or on our webpages,” Mr Quin’s response read. Instances of offensive language reported by The Independent within the past fortnight prompted Rishi Sunak’s official spokesperson to denounce the presence of the n-word as “inappropriate and offensive”, though Downing Street said it was “confident” that the word did not appear in any other documents and rejected calls for an investigation.