Race: 10 years after Lawrence murder

TUC deputy general secretary Frances O’Grady spoke of the struggle for race equality in Britain at a conference to mark the 10-year anniversary of the publication of the Macpherson report into the death of Stephen Lawrence.

O’Grady said that despite the progress made over the last 10 years, Britain still has a long way to go before it becomes “a genuinely colour-blind country”.

She specifically spoke about the TUC’s support for the government’s public sector duty to promote race equality, but added, “the TUC believes that the duty should be extended to the private sector. For us the principle of equality is indivisible — it simply cannot apply to some groups of workers and not to others.”