When Lord (Bob) Kerslake was chief executive of Hounslow council in the 1990s, I was its race equality adviser. He was simply the most committed chief executive I have worked with in this field.
The personal interest he took resulted in Hounslow holding the first National Convention for Black Councillors when other councils made feeble excuses for not being able to. Hounslow was also one of the first authorities to take racist graffiti seriously.
