Notting Hill Carnival’s boss has said its message of “diversity and inclusion” is just as important as the economic boost it gives London — with as many as two million people preparing to join Europe’s biggest street party over the bank holiday weekend.
Matthew Phillip, whose first experience of the event was being pushed round it as a baby in a buggy before graduating to a steel band, said the recent riots “absolutely” echoed the events in the 1950s that spurred on the carnival’s founders.
