1/8 Tomorrow, #Labour will unveil its plans for a #RaceEqualityAct. I was pleased to serve on a taskforce chaired by #BaronessDoreenLawrence, to assist with the development of the Act, which seeks to tackle racism & inequality around the themes of security, poverty & respect. 2/8 #AnnelieseDodds MP, shadow secretary for women & equalities, spearheading the work on the Act, described the task as one based on an urgent need to tackle racism, laid bare & intensified by the impact of COVID-19, & the world's reaction to the murder of #GeorgeFloyd. Hundreds

1/7 To help me write my autobiography, Conservative Campaign HQs prepared 4 pages of a dossier on me, my cases & membership of organisations, & sent it to the Sunday Sun, Express, Mail & Telegraph; A couple kindly sent me the dossier. What was interesting about it, is that over 2/7 90% of my work for the past 5 years has been in response to the government's mismanagement of the Windrush Scandal. CCHQ missed this! That said, they did find a deport case of a man with a serious conviction, but didn't say they've just paid him damages, that he'd been in the

1/12 No one will be surprised that I'm not shocked by the Home Secretary's announcement that she'll be dropping some of the key recommendations in the #Windrush Lessons Learned Review (WLLR). She posits this with information that 21 of the 30 recommendations in the review 2/12 have been met or partially met, & provides some detail as to what this means. But what does implementation mean? The recommendations seek the undoing of decades of organisational, structural & cultural rot. How is this implementation being manifested? What are

1/12 Late last night, Radio 4 invited me to be interviewed this morning to discuss the current accusation of racism in the Royal family. With minutes to go, I was cancelled. I know this is a feature of broadcasting as I often see others reporting this, but it is bad planning. 2/12 Nevertheless, I'll have my say as the caller did say they'd decided to take the programme in a different direction, possibly to the lines I had supplied. My lines included, that what happened to Ngozi Fulani, CEO of Sister Space, a life saving DV project built with little

The #Jamaica deport charter flight 2021 left in the early hours of this morning. The #homeoffice originally presented the Jamaican authorities with a list of 90 people they wanted to deport including many who came to the UK as children. After much work by the Jamaican High Commission in the UK, the Home Office acknowledging that some people were wrongly included on the list and some legal representations, only 7 men, 7, of the original 90, left the UK today. Much will be said/written about this deportation. The Jamaica government, on this occasion,

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News that the #Jamaica50 flight left carrying the grand & great grandchildren of the #Windrush generation is shocking. Despite much success in getting stays in individual cases, a JR regarding the interests of children failed to obtain interim relief but continues. 1/16 Thankfully, much fewer men have gone than planned. We believe 13 of 50. This flight, during the height of a pandemic which the government has mismanaged is irresponsible. It is believed that the Jamaicans had tried to raise this as a public health issue but in the end, their 2/16