David Lammy has asked the government about the implementation of his review into the treatment of BAME people in the criminal justice system.
“In this country we have two major political parties with different visions of our past and our future, but on some matters of political importance it is vital for us to work across the parliamentary divide to achieve lasting change.
“It was in this spirit in good faith that David Cameron asked me to complete an independent review into the disproportionality in the criminal justice system and it was with the same good faith and the hope of forging political consensus that I completed it.
“I was disappointed to hear the prime minister break this consensus last week when he said that 16 of recommendations made in the Lammy review had been – and I quote – implemented, when in fact the majority of them had not.
“Inadvertently he misled the house and it’s a shame he’s not answering this question himself.”
He added: “Language matters, and as the Black Lives Matter movement makes its voice heard about systemic justice here and abroad, the very least this government could do is be honest about its actions”.
