UK faces outcry over treatment of former child immigrants

| Apr 16, 2018, 13:37 IST
A Rainforest design is projected onto Buckingham Palace in London on Sunday, as part of the Queen's Commonwealth Canopy project (QCC), a global conservation initiative in the Queen's name which seeks to preserve precious areas of forest for future generations. (Photo: AP)A Rainforest design is projected onto Buckingham Palace in London on Sunday, as part of the Queen's Commonweal... Read More
LONDON: Britain is hosting leaders from the 53-nation Commonwealth in London this week as it seeks to bolster trade ties around the world after Brexit.
But the gathering is being overshadowed by a row over people who moved to Britain from Commonwealth countries as children.

They came from what were then British colonies or newly independent states, and had an automatic right to settle in the UK. But some say they have been denied medical treatment or threatened with deportation because they can't produce papers to prove it.

Barbados High Commissioner Guy Hewitt says Britain has refused a request to meet Caribbean leaders on the issue during the Commonwealth summit.

International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt said Monday that the government must "do a better job" to put people's minds at ease.

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