Five years on from Black Lives Matter, has the UK made progress on ethnic equalities?

Gaps have narrowed in policing, employment and education, but inequalities persist in health and justice. Composite: Getty/Guardian design

In 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in the UK to protest against structural racism within British institutions, including the police.

The Black Lives Matter protests were the largest anti-racism rallies in the UK since the abolition of slavery, and led to the government announcing a new review – the 12th since 1981 – into ethnic disparities.