Knighthood for Windrush Day campaigner

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Patrick Vernon, who has campaigned for recognition of the Windrush generation, Caribbean migrants invited to Britain after World War II who faced deportation and discrimination decades later, has been knighted in the King's Birthday Honours List. Vernon's activism helped expose the scandal that saw hundreds of British citizens wrongly caught up in immigration enforcement actions. His knighthood recognises services to racial equality, acknowledging years of work bringing visibility to a largely overlooked chapter of British history and its ongoing consequences.