Virgin Atlantic says it will no longer help Home Office carry out involuntary deportations

Virgin Atlantic will no longer help the Home Office carry out involuntary deportations, the airline has said. It added that the decision was taken “in the best interests” of customers and staff, and deportations would not take place on any of its lines. The decision follows months of pressure on the govt over the Windrush scandal, which saw people who arrived in Britain legally decades ago threatened with deportation because they lacked proof of their status. Home secretary Sajid Javid, later promised to do the “right” thing with regards to the Windrush generation of Commonwealth citizens caught up in the govt’s so-called “hostile environment” immigration policy. Javid revealed last month that up to 63 people from the Windrush group may have been wrongly deported. <br/>