DOREEN LAWRENCE has called on the government and MPs to speak up on the rise of racism in Britain.The Labour peer made the remarks in a discussion at Unison’s healthcare conference in Edinburgh yesterday, a week ahead of Stephen Lawrence Day.April 22 marks the anniversary of the racist murder of her son on a London street. Outcry over the police investigation and allegations of a cover-up led to the MacPherson Inquiry, which went on in 1999 to brand the Metropolitan Police “institutionally racist.”

DOREEN LAWRENCE has called on the government and MPs to speak up on the rise of racism in Britain.

The Labour peer made the remarks in a discussion at Unison’s healthcare conference in Edinburgh yesterday, a week ahead of Stephen Lawrence Day.

April 22 marks the anniversary of the racist murder of her son on a London street. Outcry over the police investigation and allegations of a cover-up led to the MacPherson Inquiry, which went on in 1999 to brand the Metropolitan Police “institutionally racist.”

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