Article 6JC9P Labour’s proposals unlikely to be enough to end race disparities

Labour’s proposals unlikely to be enough to end race disparities

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Pippa Crerar Political editor
from World news | The Guardian on (#6JC9P)

Voters will welcome announcement of what party's reforms will look like but structural inequalities run deep

While Britain was still struggling through the Covid pandemic in autumn 2020, Keir Starmer announced that Labour would bring in a race relations act if it came to power.

His promise was driven by concern about the disproportionate impact of the coronavirus crisis on minority ethnic communities, confirmed in a report from Doreen Lawrence, the Labour peer and mother of the murdered black teenager Stephen.

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