Lessons learned since murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence | News

Thirty years ago, this month, black teenager Stephen Lawrence was murdered by racist thugs in South East London. It became an international cause célèbre after, as founder of the Anti-Racist Alliance, I was able to introduce Nelson Mandela, former South African president and anti-apartheid activist, to Stephen’s parents Doreen and Neville Lawrence. Before that, political leaders had ignored a spate of murders of young black men in a part of London we dubbed “the racist murders capital of Britain”.

It took six more years before a new Labour government set up the . . .