As prime minister, Boris Johnson did not do enough to tackle racial inequalities

Even before Boris Johnson became prime minister in July 2019, Black and ethnic minority ethnicity was a key factor in determining poorer life outcomes in Britain. The Windrush Lessons Learned Review concluded starkly that the UK government’s treatment of the Windrush generation, and its approach to immigration and citizenship more broadly, was caused by institutional failures to understand racial inequality and racism.1But the covid-19 pandemic forcefully brought home the realisation that race isn’t just a risk factor in the UK and the US; it is the difference between life and death. The first 10 named doctors in the UK who died with covid-19 were all from Black and ethnic minority backgrounds; three out of the first six nurses to die with the virus were also from ethnic minority groups.2Almost every trusted data source in the UK—Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre, Office for National Statistics, Institute for Fiscal Studies,…
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