Editing Diane Abbott (section)

===Windrush scandal===
Abbott wrote to [[Sajid Javid]] demanding that he publish the figures for people caught up in the [[Windrush scandal]], and also tell how many Commonwealth citizens lost their jobs, became homeless and were prevented from using public services. She wrote that "warm words are not enough", and maintained that transparency was needed to give the Windrush generation confidence ministers have come to grips with what is 
{{quote|...{{nbsp}}clearly a systemic problem at the Home Office. In order to make good on your promise to do right by the Windrush generation and begin to right this historic wrong, you must stop covering up the extent of the Windrush crisis and publish these figures. (...) It is unacceptable and frankly scandalous that the extent of the Windrush crisis is yet to be revealed and that the home secretary is still to publish these figures. As the Windrush scandal shows, the hostile environment inevitably catches our fellow citizens who are legally entitled to be here in its net. The government now needs to stop covering up the true human cost of the hostile environment.<ref>{{cite web|last=Bulman |first=May |date=21 June 2018 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/windrush-crisis-scandal-figures-home-office-withheld-deportations-diane-abbott-a8408451.html |title=Government urged to 'come clean' on scale of Windrush crisis as figures still withheld two months on |work=Independent |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621194101/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/windrush-crisis-scandal-figures-home-office-withheld-deportations-diane-abbott-a8408451.html |archive-date=21 June 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>}}

In August 2018, Abbott complained that there were still delays in settling Windrush claims, saying: "From the Windrush scandal to immigration detention, to these outrageous delays – it is long past time that the government takes responsibility for leaving people distressed and destitute."<ref>{{cite web|last=Marsh |first=Sarah |date=10 August 2018 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/10/windrush-citizens-still-waiting-for-cases-to-be-resolved |title=Windrush citizens still waiting for cases to be resolved |work=The Guardian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180811122644/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/10/windrush-citizens-still-waiting-for-cases-to-be-resolved |archive-date=11 August 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>