People of African Descent in the United Kingdom

Baroness Williams of Trafford Excerpts
Monday 17th April 2023

(1 year, 8 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Chakrabarti Portrait Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab)
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We are talking about racism—

Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait Baroness Williams of Trafford (Con)
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My Lords, it is, in fact, the turn of the Conservative Benches.

Lord Lilley Portrait Lord Lilley (Con)
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Did my noble friend give the visiting body a copy of the excellent Sewell report? It showed that, though discrimination and prejudice exist, are wrong and should be combated, they could not account for most of the disparities. For example, there is a huge disparity between performance of black people from the Caribbean and black people from Africa. Nor could they account for the fact that one of the worst performing groups is white working class people. Did this body comment on those facts?