Only a third of recommendations to tackle endemic racism in UK implemented

Guardian analysis exposes lack of action taken despite major reports published over the past 40 years

• Five years on from Black Lives Matter, has the UK made progress on ethnic equalities?

Only a third of the recommendations from major reports commissioned to tackle endemic racism in the UK over the past 40 years have actually been implemented, a Guardian investigation has found.

The Guardian's analysis - published ahead of the fifth anniversary of the Black Lives Matter protests - has led experts involved in some of those inquiries to demand the government break the doom loop" of inaction.