London mayor’s racism rallying cry

The mayor of London made a rallying cry for people to take the lead in tackling racism, saying society could not wait for the UK Government “to understand why this matters”.

In a virtual event on the Black Lives Matter movement, Sadiq Khan talked about his experiences and how society could no longer be complacent following the death in the US of George Floyd.

Mr Khan said that, growing up in London in the 1970s and 1980s, the use of racial slurs “wasn’t uncommon”.