Publish action taken to support BAME people in pandemic, says Doreen Lawrence

Exclusive: Labour peer writes to PM for steps implemented and future-action timescale

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Doreen Lawrence has spoken out for the first time about Covid-19 and its impact on the black and minority ethnic community by demanding the government publish what steps it has taken to help frontline workers.

The Labour peer and the party’s race relations adviser has written to the prime minister to ask which of the seven recommendations from a Public Health England report into the BAME community and the virus have been implemented, as well as a timescale for future action.

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