LEGAL action has been launched against Home Secretary Suella Braverman for refusing to implement key recommendations of a review which followed the Windrush scandal.

A petition signed by over 50,000 people demanding implementation was delivered to 10 Downing Street today by the Black Equity Organisation (BEO).

In 2017 it was revealed that hundreds of people from the Caribbean who were invited to work in Britain in the late 1940s and early 1950s were targeted under the Tory government’s hostile environment policy towards immigrants.

People and families who had lived and worked in Britain for decades were denied NHS treatment, the right to work and to rent houses and were forced to prove they had a right to be in Britain.

Hundreds were deported including arrivals from the vessel Empire Windrush in 1948.

In 2018 an independent review into the scandal published 30 recommendations. They included the introduction of a migrants’ commissioner, a review of the remit and role of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, and organising reconciliation events.

In January Ms Braverman announced that she would not be implementing the recommendations.

The BEO, a charity campaigning for immigrants’ rights, is seeking a judicial review of Ms Braverman’s “unlawful” decision.

Chief executive Dr Wanda Wyporska said: “Victims have been campaigning for years for justice.

“The Home Office must be opened up to independent scrutiny and forced to honour the promises made in its name. Windrush survivors have been through enough and this latest twist in a shameful story adds insult to injury.”