How do second and third generations of Black people in the UK feel to be treated as less British than their Irish or Polish equivalents?

Labour Party Deputy Leader and Leader of the House of Commons, Harriet Harman MP, has kindly passed TMP a copy of a recent speech she gave in her constituency on migration and diversity, which we publish exclusively here today.

Harman, who is also Secretary of State for Equalities and Minister for Women, represents Camberwell and Peckham, an inner city South London seat with the largest black community of any constituency in England. It was in Harman’s constituency that the young Damilola Taylor was brutally murdered on the notorious North Peckham estate on 27 November 2007.

In the speech given to London’s South Bank University Harman admitted that “just as this country has long benefited from migration, there has too, regrettably, always been fear and hostility to blunt the welcome.”

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