Sadiq Khan: 'I'm impatient for more progress to be made'

Twenty years after the Macpherson report was published, the mayor of London tells The Voice aspirations for change haven't quite been realised

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Alannah Francis

THE MACPHERSON report is 20 years old today. To mark the milestone anniversary of the seminal document that deemed the Metropolitan Police Service institutionally racist and outlined 70 recommendations to address racial inequality, campaigners, politicians, members of the justice system and the public have been reflecting on the progress – or lack thereof – that’s been made since its publication.

The judicial inquiry which looked at how the Met dealt with the Stephen Lawrence murder investigation followed five years of persistent campaigning by the teenager’s parents Doreen and Neville.

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