SUELLA BRAVERMAN has been accused of “betraying” the Windrush generation after confirming that she has dropped key reforms designed to right the injustices of the Home Office scandal. 

The Home Secretary announced yesterday that she will not be implementing recommendations that would have increased independent scrutiny of the government’s immigration policies. 

A commitment to hold reconciliation events with the Windrush community has also been abandoned. 

The decision, made in the same year as the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush to Britain, has sparked widespread outrage, with opposition MPs, community organisers and watchdogs condemning the move. 

Windrush 75 Network convener Patrick Vernon said: “For the Home Secretary to be backsliding on government commitments to set right the injustices of the Windrush scandal — particularly in this anniversary year — is a slap in the face for those communities.”

The 30 recommendations were accepted in full three years ago after an inquiry led by Wendy Williams examined how hostile environment policies had led to hundreds of British citizens, many of whom came from the Caribbean, being wrongly stripped of their right to work, detained and even deported. 

Ms Williams has said that she is disappointed by Ms Braverman’s decision to drop her recommendation of creating a migrants’ commissioner post, as well as giving the independent chief inspector of borders more powers.

She said that the “crucial external scrutiny measures” would have helped “raise the confidence of the Windrush community.”

Labour frontbencher David Lammy said that those people from black communities who were “detained and deported” during the Windrush scandal were being “once again spat on” following the Home Secretary’s decision.

“Our country’s brave Windrush victims denied justice yet again,” the shadow foreign secretary tweeted.

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said: “This is yet another betrayal of the Windrush generation in the 75th anniversary year.

“There are still huge failures to pay compensation to those who were so badly wronged.”

Ms Braverman has said that instead of establishing a commissioner, she will “look to shift culture and subject ourselves to scrutiny.”

Her announcement confirms rumours that the Home Office was gearing up to axe the reforms, which were initially dismissed as speculation by a government minister.