Good morning. The late Ambalavaner Sivanandan, a leading voice in Britain’s anti-racist struggle, remarked: “What Enoch Powell says today, the Conservative party says tomorrow, and the Labour party legislates on the day after.”
It has been 50 years since Sivanandan made that observation, yet his point – that far-right rhetoric can creep into the mainstream and harden into government policy – feels as relevant now as ever before.
