Traffic stops should face same scrutiny as stop and search

Traffic stops are not routinely recorded meaning no data is available on why the power is used

Campaigners and lawyers have called for traffic stops to be subject to the same scrutiny and oversight as other stop and search powers after a Labour MP was pulled over by police.

Dawn Butler, the former shadow equalities minister, accused the police of being institutionally racist after the car she was being driven in by her black friend was pulled over in Hackney, east London.