People should be able to declare themselves ‘Black English’ on the census says Labour MP David Lammy Tottenham MP said absence of option showed a lack of racial equality in the UK ONS said tests found ‘evidence didn’t support change to include Black English’ Census also had option for respondents to describe ethnicity in their … Read more
Labour MP David Lammy hit back at a caller on his LBC radio show after she told him ‘you will never be English because you’re African-Caribbean’. The MP for Tottenham said he is ‘very, very proud’ of his Caribbean roots, but also claims ‘English’ as his identity because he was born and grew up in England. He … Read more
Adele has been supported by supermodel Naomi Campbell and thousands of fans after being accused of cultural appropriation for donning a Jamaican flag bikini top to mark the cancelled Notting Hill Carnival. In a picture shared to her Instagram on Sunday night, the songstress, posing in the garden of her $9.5million Beverly Hills home, wore … Read more
David Lammy today called for the police watchdog to investigate the ‘shocking’ stop-and-search of black team GB sprinter Bianca Williams after she and her partner were pulled over in their Mercedes and handcuffed by the Met during a hunt for weapons. The shadow Justice Secretary said Ms Williams, 26, and Portuguese 400m sprinter Ricardo dos … Read more
A shadow minister criticised fellow Labour MPs today over a ‘facile’ racism row with Priti Patel. David Lammy criticised a group led by Vauxhall MP Florence Eshalomi for accusing the Home Secretary of ‘gaslighting’ them over her own experience of racism. Their accusation in a letter came after Ms Patel clashed in the Commons with … Read more