Black activists make their anger clear
Labour right-winger Meg Hillier MP got a hot reception when she tried to tell Black activists – assembled to protest the horrific strip-search of ‘Girl Q’ by police at her school – that their lot had improved in the last two decades.
Hillier found herself facing jeers, whistles, drums and boos as she tried to rescue her speech:
Confidence of Black and Asian people in the Labour party has fallen off a cliff under Keir Starmer as rampant anti-Black racism and Islamophobia have gone unpunished and have resulted in mass purges of councillors and candidates of colour by the Labour right.
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