A protester holds a placard at a BLM protest in Hyde Park, London. The open letter to the PM stressed he should implement recommendations of earlier reports into racial injustice. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian
Boris Johnson has been urged to repudiate and withdraw last weekâs much derided race disparity report, which provoked a huge backlash from critics who accused it of downplaying racism in the UK.
An open letter, whose signatories include the race equality thinktank Runnymede Trust, civil rights campaign group Liberty, African diaspora social enterprise Ubele Initiative and Black Lives Matter UK, says the report âwhitewashesâ daily challenges faced by minority communities and that its claims have prompted âpublic incredulity and national indignationâ.