The death of George Floyd in the US and the Black Lives Matter movement has done for racial inequality what William Wilberforce once said about slavery, “You may choose to look the other way, but you can never again say you did not know.”

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Authorised blog in a personal capacity on the Committee on Standards in Public Life's blog hosted on the United Kingdom's government's website concerning Black lives matter and inequalities highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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