Black Britons are asking if the UK is “going backwards”, the Windrush commissioner has warned in an interview marking his 100th day in office.

The Rev Clive Foster said Windrush scandal survivors were questioning whether “history is repeating itself” as UK politicians target legal migrants .

Foster, whose parents came to the UK from Jamaica in 1959, called for empathy and compassion in Home Office decision-making, adding: “I don’t want to live in a country where I’m made to feel I don’t belong.”

The commissioner, recruited to speak for survivors and oversee the government’s work to address the scandal, has met 700 survivors during a UK tour since taking office in June. This week, the Home Office announced they had adopted a series of his recommendations for reforming the underperform

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