Many of you have written to me about the need for black history to be taught at school, and to be mandatory on the national school curriculum. I agree. In this letter to Gavin Williamson, the Secretary of State for Education I urge that the government implements these calls but…

After witnessing the excessive force American police have used on Black Lives Matter demonstrators, hundreds of people have written to me to demand the urgent suspension of exports of tear gas, rubber bullets and other riot control equipment to the US. I find any UK involvement in this brutal response…

Over the weekend we saw protestors in Bristol dramatically pull down the statue of Edward Colston that stood in the city centre. Colston profited from the enslavement of 84,000 African men, women and children, of whom 19,000 died on their journey.    It is not right that we celebrate such a…

Many hundreds of people have written to me about the recent terrible killing in the USA of George Floyd. First, I condemn the killing utterly. No-one who has seen the footage could possibly do anything else. A man died clearly struggling and in pain as a direct consequence of the…