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Daily Mirror
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Sophie Huskisson

Labour MP tells party Black MPs can't fight racism alone in Stephen Lawrence debate

A shadow minister has warned Labour it cannot just be Black female MPs who fight racism, during a debate on Stephen Lawrence this afternoon.

Sarah Jones, who is Labour's policing minister, highlighted the lack of white or male MPs from her party who had attended a debate on the Metropolitan Police's investigation into the murder of Stephen Lawrence.

“It is no coincidence that my colleagues from the Labour benches who are speaking here today are majority women who happen to be Black," she said.

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