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Politics Unpacked

Remembering George Floyd

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On the first anniversary of George Floyd's death, Matt Chorley speaks to his school friend Jonathan Veal about his memories of Floyd and reflections on the year since his friend's death, and Labour's Shadow Justice Secretary David Lammy on systemic injustice in the UK today. 


PLUS


Daniel Finkelstein and David Aaronovitch discuss Islamophobia in the Conservative Party. 



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0:00.0

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offshore wind farm, a doggar bank off the coast of Yorkshire. When complete, doggar bank will be

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capable of powering over 6 million homes a year with clean, renewable energy, a major step

1:17.6

towards the UK achieving net zero carbon emissions. And all this is creating thousands of

1:24.4

sustainable green jobs in communities right across the UK.

1:29.7

Find out more about what SSE are doing at SSE.com slash change.

1:54.4

George Floyd died in Minneapolis. We remember him with an old schoolmate of his Jonathan

1:59.3

Field. And I've also been speaking to David Lamy, labours shadow justice secretary about what's

2:03.8

happened in the national debate about race both in America and in the UK in the 12 months since.

2:09.2

That's coming up at the moment. First, we kick off with our columnist panel. It's Tuesday.

2:12.5

So it must be Finkovitch. It's Danny Finkovstein and David and one of it.

2:17.0

Some news which has only just come in in the last few minutes. This report into

2:25.6

allegation of Islamophobia in the Tory party, which has said that Boris Johnson's comments about

2:30.7

women wearing the berk have given impression that the toys are insensitive to Muslim communities.

2:35.5

And in the details of the report, Boris Johnson says he now apologises when he offends taken.

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