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When Boris Johnson entered Downing Street in July 2019 with a promise to deliver Brexit by any means, the Caribbean community in Britain faced a simple and frightening question: what would leaving the European Union mean for people whose right to be here had already proved more fragile than anyone had admitted?

In April 2019, the Windrush Compensation Scheme finally opened. In May, Theresa May — the Home Secretary who had created the hostile environment that produced the Windrush scandal — resigned as Prime Minister. Neither event delivered the closure the Caribbean community sought, but together they marked a turning point.

Six months after the Windrush scandal broke, the Caribbean community in Britain was monitoring a government that had promised much and delivered little. The Windrush Lessons Learned Review was underway. Sajid Javid was at the Home Office. And the Carnival, after a break for rain, had returned to Notting Hill.

In April 2018, the Windrush scandal became impossible to ignore. Caribbean leaders confronted Theresa May at a Commonwealth summit in London. Amber Rudd resigned as Home Secretary. And Britain was forced to reckon, publicly and painfully, with what it had done to the generation that had answered its call.