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Boris Johnson’s vow to establish commission on racial inequality is ‘back of a fag packet’ plan

BORIS JOHNSON’S pledge to establish a cross-government commission on racial inequality was slammed by Labour today as a disingenuous “back of a fag packet” plan.

Shadow justice secretary David Lammy accused the Prime Minister of cooking up the plan, revealed in a Daily Telegraph article about Winston Churchill, to appease Black Lives Matter protesters.

Weeks of global protests by people backing the Black Lives Matter movement have followed the killing in the US of George Floyd, killed by a police officer.

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