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MYSTERIOUS: William macpherson - What They Never Told You

Deputy leader Lucy Powell says Labour must ‘stick to manifesto’ over EU customs union, in implicit rebuke to Streeting – as it happened

No 10 has largely played down health secretary’s comments

The Guardian - UK · Dec 23, 2025

Spycops whistleblower says bosses stopped him revealing surveillance of Stephen Lawrence family

Peter Francis says he had ‘hostile’ exchanges over telling 1990s Macpherson inquiry into racist murder about covert operation

The Guardian - UK · Dec 4, 2025

Tuesday briefing: Why everyone’s suddenly worked up about ‘non-crime hate incidents’

In today’s newsletter: A police visit to a Daily Telegraph columnist about a tweet unleashed a barrage of coverage – but the story is more complicated than it appears

The Guardian - UK · Nov 26, 2024

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Twenty-five years after the Lawrence inquiry, Britain has regressed on race and politicians have made it worse

After all the fine words, issues of racial equality were ducked and the rightwing backlash found friends in government, says author and academic Nicola Rollock

The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2024

Thirty years after Stephen’s murder, 25 years after the official inquiry, why won’t the Met change?

As we remember the Macpherson report, I rue the lack of progress, says Doreen Lawrence, Stephen’s mother, a life peer and a social justice campaigner

The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2024

Met police are ‘arrogant and resistant to change’, Doreen Lawrence says

In the 25 years since the damning Macpherson report, ‘so much more needs to be done’ by police force, says mother of Stephen Lawrence

The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2024

Head of Britain’s police chiefs says force ‘institutionally racist’

Exclusive: Gavin Stephens becomes most senior serving officer to accept discrimination in policing operates at a ‘fundamental level’

The Guardian - UK · Jan 5, 2024

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Lawyer for Stephen Lawrence’s mother writes to Met over ‘corrupt’ officer claims

Mr Lawrence was murdered in south-east London in 1993.

The Independent UK · Nov 14, 2023

‘No more’: Anti-racism group to monitor UK police after scandals

The Alliance for Police Accountability is launched in the UK on the heels of explosive scandals linked to the police.

Al Jazeera · Jul 19, 2023

Retired Stephen Lawrence cops accused of misconduct 'won't face criminal charges'

The retired Met Police detectives probed over their alleged mishandling of the Stephen Lawrence murder at the beginning of the investigation will not face any charges, the CPS is to announce

Daily Mirror · Jul 6, 2023

Stephen Lawrence murder: what new suspect adds to our understanding of this landmark case

More than 30 years after the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence, London’s Metropolitan Police have named a new suspect. A BBC investigation identified Matthew White as a sixth suspect, raising questions about why it took police two decades to properly investigate White, who died in 2021.

The Conversation · Jun 28, 2023

Stephen Lawrence inquiry should have received more from Met, IOPC found

Watchdog identified further details that ‘could and should’ have been handed over to Macpherson inquiry

The Guardian - UK · Jun 26, 2023

Who was Stephen Lawrence case suspect Matthew White?

White, who died in 2021 aged 50, was convicted of an assault on a black shop worker near where Lawrence was murdered

The Guardian - UK · Jun 26, 2023

Stephen Lawrence murder: 50-year-old Matthew White named as sixth suspect for first time

Key suspect cheats justice thanks to more errors by Met

Evening Standard · Jun 26, 2023

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Evening Standard · Mar 21, 2023

Met Police report: Londoners react to the Casey review

Sir Mark Rowley and Sadiq Khan among those to speak on issue

The Conversation · Mar 21, 2023

Casey review: key steps the Met police must take to address its institutional racism and sexism

Baroness Louise Casey has found that London’s Metropolitan police force is institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic. We heard similar 24 years ago when, after the incompetent investigation into the murder of Stephen Lawrence, Sir William MacPherson reported that the Met was institutionally racist.

The Guardian - UK · Mar 21, 2023

Doreen Lawrence says Metropolitan police are ‘rotten to the core’

Mother of teenager murdered in racist attack in 1993 says Casey report findings come as ‘no surprise’

The Conversation · May 30, 2022

The police won't acknowledge institutional racism in their race action plan -- here's why that matters

In light of racially disproportionate stop and search practices, the case of Child Q and other accusations of misconduct, police in England and Wales are under pressure to address racism in their ranks. But their plan to do this through changes such as mandatory anti-racism training for all officers refuses…

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The Independent UK · May 5, 2022

Chief Constable defends Merseyside Police over ‘institutional racism’ claim

Serena Kennedy denied claims by Police and Crime Commissioner Emily spurrell that the force is institutionally racist.

Liverpool Echo · May 4, 2022

Merseyside Police 'institutionally racist' says crime commissioner Emily Spurrell

Rank and file reps say they are "deeply disappointed" at the comments

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