Boris Johnson urged to reject ‘disingenuous’ UK race disparities report

Exclusive: equality campaigners say review downplays discrimination faced by minority communities

Boris Johnson has been urged to repudiate and withdraw last week's much maligned race disparity report, which provoked a huge backlash from critics who accused it of downplaying racism in the UK.

An open letter, whose signatories include the race equality thinktank Runnymede Trust, civil rights campaign group Liberty, African diaspora social enterprise Ubele Initiative and Black Lives Matter UK, says the report whitewashes" daily challenges faced by minority communities and that its claims have prompted public incredulity and national indignation".