Newsreader’s older brothers were both affected, unable to access healthcare or benefits or get a passport

The BBC presenter Clive Myrie has said he felt “angry and ashamed” of the UK following the Windrush scandal, which affected two of his brothers.

The foreign correspondent and newsreader, whose parents moved to Bolton from Jamaica in the early 1960s, reveals the impact of the government’s “hostile environment policy” in his upcoming memoir.

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