Windrush fiasco may sway key London battlegrounds

摘要

Whitehall's mistreatment of the Windrush generation could swing key council votes in areas with large immigrant populations, senior politicians have warned.Conservative local government figures and MPs are concerned that immigration errors made at the Home Office means knife-edge council votes, such as those in Wandsworth and Barnet LBCs, could be influenced by a public backlash against national government.Wandsworth's Conservative leader, Cllr Ravi Govindia, this week signed a national petition urging home secretary Amber Rudd to deal with the escalating Windrush crisis.