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Sadiq Khan warns Met has moved ‘backwards’ since Stephen Lawrence murder and says racism is ‘worryingly real’

Source: PA Media

Sadiq Khan has hit out at claims institutional racism in the police is “fake” or “woke”, warning that the Metropolitan Police has moved backwards in some ways since the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence more than three decades ago.

The issue is still “a matter of life and death” for Black Britons today, the London mayor said.

His comments come on the 25th anniversary of, which sensationally institutionally racist.

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