‘Clear parallels’ with Windrush as UK-born toddler denied passport

Campaigners say lessons not being learned as three-year-old’s mother is asked to prove right to free NHS treatment

The UK has failed to learn lessons since the Windrush scandal, campaigners say, after a UK-born toddler was denied a British passport and asked to prove she has the right to free NHS treatment.

Three-year-old Zharia-Rae’s mother, Tracy Ann Dunkley, has been a British citizen since 2024 and the child’s older brother, born to the same parents in 2020, was given a British passport in 2022.