To fix its problems now, Labour must face the racism in its past
It would come to be known as one of the UK’s most racist pieces of legislation. But when the then Labour home secretary, James Callaghan, rushed the 1968 Commonwealth Immigrants Act through parliament in the space of three days, he was adamant it had nothing to do with race. A series of cabinet papers released years later proved what everyone already knew at the time: Callaghan wasn’t telling the truth.
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