Shadow justice secretary David Lammy said the proposal was drawn up to ‘assuage the Black Lives Matter protest’
’s announcement of a new cross-government team to look into racial inequality as a ‘back of a fag packet’ plan.Black Lives MatterHe argued that without any details on the plan there was nothing to separate it from other reviews intoWriting in the Daily Telegraph, the prime minister said the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities will look at ‘all aspects of inequality – in employment, in health outcomes, in academic and all other walks of life’.
‘If he was serious, why are there no details about how it will be staffed, its remit, its terms of reference, its timetable? That’s the question.’ Mr Johnson told broadcasters today: ‘What I really want to do as Prime Minister is change the narrative so we stop the sense of victimisation and discrimination.
Lord Woolley of Woodford, a crossbencher who leads the advisory group to the government’s Race Disparity Unit, said what the PM was referring to is ‘real discrimination’ and that some of his language is ‘frankly unhelpful’.
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